When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I fought for peace in the fifties.
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.