... to those who will learn, this further lesson:
- 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.
— Haile Selassie's address to the United Nations (1963)