April 25, Mattarella: “The past is not dead, now and always Resistance”

Rome, Apr 25 (LaPresse) – “Italy, united around its Constitution, looks with confidence to the challenges of the future, together with other European peoples. The American writer William Faulkner — Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 — warned in his Requiem for a Nun that ‘the past is never dead, it is not even past.’ What has happened does not fade away but lives on in the consequences it has produced. The past has shaped the present. That is why for the Republic the commitment holds that urges us: now and always Resistance!”So said the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, speaking at the ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of Liberation, currently taking place in San Severino Marche (Macerata).“Just as, in uniting populations and Resistance fighters in every country, there was a shared aspiration for peace. The dictatorships that had unleashed the Second World War had made the rhetoric of war a value. Against their design, from the dead among the civilian population, from fallen soldiers, from the victims of concentration camps, there arose — and still arises — a single invocation: peace. Peace for every person. Peace as a right of every people. Peace for every country. This is the meaning of the Resistance. To oppose the violence of man against man,” the Head of State added.