"We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world": Responding to Volodymyr Zelensky's remarkable speech
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed a joint session of the US House and Senate yesterday, asking the United States to help his country defend themselves against the ongoing Russian invasion. In The Daily Article for March 17, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison responds to President Zelensky’s impassioned plea for help and reminds Christians of our calling to “do good; seek justice, correct oppression” (Isaiah 1:17).
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, March the 17th, 2022. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.0 | Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressed a joint session of the U.S. House and Senate yesterday. In today's Wall |
| 0:22.5 | Street Journal, Carl Rove calls his speech an extraordinarily powerful historic moment and |
| 0:29.1 | says he and the Ukrainians are defining courage for our time. Mr. Zelensky's remarks were so |
| 0:37.0 | significant that I'll devote this daily article to them. |
| 0:41.0 | Among his statements were these very perceptive observations. |
| 0:45.3 | Russia has attacked not just us, not just our land, not just our cities. |
| 0:51.3 | It went on a brutal offensive against our values, basic human values. It threw tanks and planes against our cities. It went on a brutal offensive against our values, basic human values. It threw |
| 0:57.0 | tanks and planes against our freedom, against our right to live freely in our own country, |
| 1:02.5 | choosing our own future, against our desire for happiness, against our national dreams, |
| 1:08.2 | just like the same dreams you have, you Americans. |
| 1:12.6 | After delivering his speech in Ukrainian through a translator, Mr. Zelensky closed by speaking in |
| 1:18.9 | English. He told the members of Congress, peace in your country doesn't depend any more only |
| 1:25.3 | on you and your people. It depends on those next to you and those who are |
| 1:30.4 | strong. Strong doesn't mean big. Strong is brave and ready to fight for the life of his citizens |
| 1:37.6 | and citizens of the world. For human rights, for freedom, for the right to live decently, and to die when your time comes, |
| 1:47.6 | not when it's wanted by someone else, by your neighbor. |
| 1:52.0 | As Mr. Zelensky delivered these statements in English, |
| 1:55.4 | Senator Angus King said later, there was a collective holding of the breath. |
| 2:01.5 | President Zelensky closed his historic address with statements that deserve to be read |
| 2:05.9 | in their entirety, and I quote, today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine, |
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