Frases de Pau Casals

Pablo Casals i Defilló foi um virtuoso violoncelista e maestro catalão. É também amplamente conhecido pela versão castelhana de seu nome: Pablo Casals. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Dezembro 1876 – 22. Outubro 1973
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Pau Casals: Frases em inglês

“This is the greatest honour I have ever received in my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern.”

Medal of Peace acceptance
Contexto: This is the greatest honour I have ever received in my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern. Yet in my childhood I learned to love it. My mother—an exceptional, brilliant woman — used to speak to me about it when I was still a child, because in those years there were also a lot of wars. What is more, I am a Catalan. Today, a province of Spain. But what has been Catalonia? Catalonia has been the greatest nation in the world. I will tell you why. Catalonia has had the first parliament, much before England. Catalonia had the first United Nations. All the authorities of Catalonia in the Eleventh Century met in a city of France, at that time Catalonia, to speak about peace, at the Eleventh Century. Peace in the world and against, against, against war, the inhumanity of the wars. So I am so happy, so happy, to be with you today. That is why the United Nations, which works solely towards the peace ideal, is in my heart, because anything to do with peace goes straight to my heart.