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: people of the United States itself, who are nobody's enemy and who will, one day, play the decisive role in destroying U.S. imperialism and creating the conditions of a lasting peace. It is my deepest hope that these aims may be advanced by this Conference and that our vision of a better world will be furthered. This furtherance depends on our just assessment of the enemies of mankind. We know the situation in which we now are and we know the goal wewishto achieve. But we cannot get there by hopes and illusions. War and oppression have a long history in human affairs. They cannot be overcome except through struggle. A world free of exploitation and foreign domination, a world of wellbeing for the masses of people of all continents, a world of peace and fraternity, has to be fought for. This is the lesson U.S. imperialism teaches us. It is not a palatable lesson, but nothing will be accomplished by ignoring it. The danger of nuclear war will not be averted through fear of United States' power, @n the contrary, the more isolated the wielders of power in the United States become, in the face of world rejection of their values and resistance to their acts, the wore likely we are to succeed in avoiding a nuclear holocaust. It is the illusion on the part of U.S. imperialism that it can accomplish an aim and defeat people by the use of such weapons that constitutes today the main source of nuclear danger. But when the péople of Peru, Guatemala, Venezuela, Columbia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Congo, the Cameroons, the United States, Britain ~ all the people - demonstrate and struggle and resist, nuclear power is of no avail. It will destroy its -user, Let us join together to resist U.S. imperialisn.
Bertrand Russell - 27 levember, 1965.