The Greatest Speech in History
“If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences…if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes…”
"Pericles finished his overview of the city-state of Athens and her people by saying: “Therefore, having judged that to be happy means to be free, and to be free means to be brave, do not shy away from the risks of war.”
Pericles’ Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech in History - GreekReporter.com
In 431 BCE the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered one of the most influential speeches of all time, his Epitaphios or Funeral Oration.
Tasos Kokkinidis
I wonder what he would make of our modern democracy and world.
Ill fix the formatting later.
#enoughsaid