📌 "That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned;
📌 That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation;
📌 That until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes;
📌 That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race;
📌 That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained…
… We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.“
—English translation of a portion of a 1963 speech delivered to the United Nations by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I
