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Life has let me walk a long road through time. Destiny has given me the opportunity to set foot on many red carpets and to meet those in high places. But above all, destiny has allowed me to be close to people all around the world, to listen to testimonies from men and women excluded from the happiness of living and overwhelmed with extreme poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The red carpets I walked on during presidential trips did not lead me astray nor did I let the bright lights dazzle me. I saw dictatorships collapse, others being set up with the protection and sometimes the support of the most powerful people on this planet. I saw communism collapse like a house of cards, overturned by people who could no longer bear their leaders\u2019 contempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, I can see a capitalism splitting up and destroying itself, victim of its totalitarian excesses along with its contempt towards humane and non-monetary values.
25 years after the establishment of France Libert\u00e9s, the reasons why the foundation was created still are valid\u2026 I had the opportunity to see some situations start to change and we even won some of our struggles. But the majority of humanity is still left on the wayside and is violently stricken by the excesses of our system. Climate change is an example of that: once again both the neediest and the most vulnerable people will be the first to pay for our so-called development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s why I think that each one of the foundation\u2019s commitments remains so necessary and essential. Several of those consist in promoting the universal access to water, defining the \u201creal wealth\u201d created, making the rights of peoples recognized and respected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
France Libert\u00e9s is an active link in a global network, which aims at implementing an alternative to the globalization of trade and finance for a society which gives life every chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danielle Mitterrand, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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