Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1958-10-01 / 10. szám
8 FRATERNITY my existence, to secure its blessings for my people. Without liberty, there can be no lasting social order; without liberty, there is no field for productive labor; without liberty, there is no personal security; without freedom, there is no conscience. All Europe has been shaken by these principles. The direction of our present era is freedom.” (End of quote.) LAJOS KOSSUTH died only some sixty years ago. But still fresh in the minds of many men and women is his indomitable spirit, his unquenchable thirst for justice, and his irrevocable position on the question of individual freedom and disenfranchisement. All over the world men and women of good will are imbued, with Kossuth’s sense of universal justice, with Kossuth’s imagination. No man exemplifies the militan spirit of defense of man’s humanity to man more than did the great Hungarian Patriot — LAJOS KOSSUTH. Ladies and gentlemen! Hungary, like many other countries, has a great and glorious and legendary history of fierce opposition to oppression and slavery. For the past thousand years, and right up to the present moment, Hungary’s traditional love for individual freedom and respect for the rights of the common man has sustained her, and kept her indomitable spirit alive and dynamic. As National President of the American Hungarian Federation, representing more than a million Hungarian-Americans, I humbly accept this presentation with tremendous pride, as reell as with a profound serese of gratitude — the pride I feel is in the honorable tradition of my ancestors and in the glorious history made possible by such world heroes as my own countryman, LAJOS KOSSUTH — and my gratitude, which I and all my fellow Hungarian-Americans feel, is to the United States of America for the prirvilege and the opportunity of living constructive, productive, creative and, above all, FREE lives in this great and glorious country of ours.
