“I accept this victory without arrogance or a spirit of vengeance. It is not
a personal victory, I owe it to the Popular Unity, to the social forces with
us. I owe it to the Radicals, Socialists, Communists, Social Democrats,
people from the Unitary Popular Action Movement and from the Independent
Popular Alliance, and to the thousands of independents. I owe it to the
country’s anonymous and sacrificed men, I owe it to the humble women of our
country. I owe it to the Chilean people who will be with me when I enter La
Moneda National Palace on November 4.... I am your compa~nero presidente....
I will not be just another president; I will be the first president of the
first truly democratic, popular and
revolutionary government in Chilean history.”
September 5, 1970
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Salvador Allende
Gossens, “Victory Sppech to the People of Santiago,” in Salvador Allende
Reader: Chile’s Voice of Democracy (New York: Ocean Press, 2000), 48.