“Precisely on this solemn occasion I wish to speak to the young people, to those standing on the lawn, who have sung  their songs for us.  A rebellious student in the past, I will not criticize their impatience, but it is my duty to ask them to think calmly.  Young people, yours is that beautiful age during which physical and mental vigor enable you to undertake practically any endeavor.  For that reason you are duty-bound to help us advance.  Turn your eagerness into more work, your hopes into more effort and your impulsiveness into concrete accomplishments.  Use your drive and energy to be better -- the best -- students and workers.  Thousands upon thousands of young people have demanded a place in the social struggle.  Now they have that place.  The time has come for all young people to participate in the action.” (58)

      November 5, 1970

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Salvador Allende Gossens, “Inaugural Address in the National Stadium,” in Salvador Allende Reader: Chile’s Voice of Democracy (New York: Ocean Press, 2000), 58.