In Les Misérables, which I first read during the war, Victor Hugo proclaims: “Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce.”  We must fight against the insidious evil that writhes in the darkness within people’s hearts and in society. We must struggle to create a century of peace where humanity triumphs! This spiritual struggle has no end. It is an eternal one that we must keep fighting. That is why I lift my pen again today and, with all my might, carry on my struggle of words.