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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech to Egypt's National Assembly in Cairo (November 6, 1969) as quoted in The Washington Post (p. 1), November 7, 1969.
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.