At the cost of painful disillusionment, we have come to the realization that wishing for peace isn't enough. Peace does not come by wishing for it, and let us once and for all come to the understanding that the absence of shooting does not in itself constitute peace. Where there is a denial of justice for a whole people there is no peace.
Speaking on Communist expansion in Asia after Korea and Indochina.
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