Excerpts of the speech of Ken Blackwell, Former US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission, at the Free Iran 2022, is as follows:
Madame Rajavi, fellow freedom fighters and ambassadors for human rights. We’re at a moment for choosing will, in fact, we cave in to the darkness of our time and this regime.
A regime that our previous speakers and allies have correctly branded as corrupt and purveyors of crimes against humanity, or will we in fact challenge the darkness of this regime?
We know throughout human history that those who would do evil love the darkness. The moment for choosing is upon each of us as individuals. Will we take that inherent light of human dignity that has unpenching quest for freedom? Will we take that light and put it under a bushel? Or will we, in fact, put it on a candlestick?
Unite in the strength of the Latin phrase, equal of us in… from the mini one? And can we, as freedom fighters and lovers of human dignity, band together with Madame Rajavi and the resistance to make sure that we usher in a new morning in Iran? We van do it, we must do it, we will do it.
Martin Luther King, the leader of the great civil rights movement in America, understood that we were invested with the human agency, that we could change the arc of history, but we must have the will and the determination to do it. The diaspora has been a force and engine of change and a direct threat to the corrupt regime.
We’ve witnessed their attack on you and those who support you. My dad used to say this to me as I was growing up. He said, son, dogs don’t bark at park cars. What he meant by that was that dogs only bark at cars that are on the move.
The reason that the regime is so terrified and so caustic in their comments about us is because they know that we’re on the move, and we’re going to win, and we’re going to affect regime change.
Let’s bring a new morning in Iran. Let’s do it together. Let’s do it now. We can, and we must.
