The President of the Republic warned this Monday that “there is no true freedom” without “health, education and social solidarity”, recalling how “long, painful, suffered” was the path to achieve it and that “it continues to be imperfect, incomplete and requires more and better”.
Without freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of action, freedom of expression, freedom of choice and control over those who represent us, each and every person is not respected, but without rights, without health, without education, without social solidarity , without condemning poverty, there is no true freedom”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in Porto, speaking at the commemoration ceremony of the 190th anniversary of the entry of the Liberal Army in Porto.
The Head of State also praised the role of the Armed Forces in the History of Portugal and in the fight for freedom, highlighting that the “Armed Forces have always been a pledge of freedom and they knew and know how to guarantee it with pride, courage and a sense of service to Portugal”.
Recalling the arrival of D. Pedro on July 9, 1832 in Porto, “who would welcome him with courageous loyalty and unconditional devotion, giving him victory in the resistance to the siege that would follow and in the civil war that divided Portugal and remaining forever in the ancient city, very noble, always loyal and undefeated”, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa warned that freedom cannot be taken for granted.
Freedom is conquered every day, there is no freedom conquered forever. (…) We know that it remains imperfect, incomplete and demands more and better. We know that we are a Portugal, a country and that everyone has the right to live it, even if they see it with very different and even radically different eyes, while respecting the rule of law”, he stressed.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also mentioned that “freedom requires difference, diversity, pluralism, but also dialogue, tolerance, acceptance of belonging to a single country.”
On the road to freedom, which he said is “very long, very painful and very painful”, the head of state highlighted the role of the Armed Forces.
Revolutions, like civil wars, marked moments of change in our history and, in those moments, our Armed Forces were always present. And when they fought for freedom against what prohibited it, what denied it, what sacrificed it, they later knew how to withdraw to be its guarantors and not its owners.
Source: Observadora
