"Deep in their souls, peoples on this earth regardless of ideology, race or religion, share one commonal goal to live in peace free from fear of war and violence. For it is only through peace among men and nations that the universal longing for happniess can be fulfilled.
Cumulative human experience dictates us on the occasion of the Games of XXIVth Olympiad in Seoul, September 17 through October 2, 1988, to call on our brothers and sisters around the world to declare a moratrium on all forms of strife violence and terror, casting aside weapons of conflict and hatred, and to make this gathering of our best athletes a festival of peace. It is our fervent hope and prayer that the Seoul Olympics, the biggest in Olympic history with 161 nations participating, will be a catalyst for securing enduring peace.
In the name of all peace loving man and women, this appeal for peace, endorsed individually by those who uphold the ideal, is adopted as a declaration at the Seoul Assembly of Olympeace on this 12th day of September Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Eight"
-from the stone engraving encircling the flame
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