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"War"

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory

Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah

:On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa summit conference taught, to those who will learn, this further lesson

;that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently dicredited and abandoned
;that until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation
;that until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour 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 fleeting illusions, to be pursued but never attained

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique
and in South Africa in sub-human bondage have been toppled and destroyed; until bigotry
and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding
and tolerance and good-will; until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the
eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; until that day, the African continent will not
.know peace

We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the
.victory of good over evil

The basis of racial discrimination and colonialism has been economic, and it is with economic
weapons that these evils have been and can be overcome. In pursuance of resolutions
adopted at the Addis Ababa summit conference, African states have undertaken certain
measures in the economic field which, if adopted by all member states of the United Nations,
.would soon reduce intransigeance to reason

I ask, today, for adherence to these measures by every nation represented here which is truly
.devoted to the principles enunciated in the charter
We must act while we can, while the occasion exists to exert those legitimate pressures
.available to us lest time run out and resort be had to less happy means
The great nations of the world would do well to remember that in the modern age even their
.own fates are not wholely in their hands
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the
؟fuse
.The stake of each one of us is identical-life or death

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance,
poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of
.nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us
The problems which confront us today are, equally, unprecedented. They have no
counterparts in human experience. Men search the pages of history for solutions, for
.precedents, but there are none

This then, is the ultimate challenge. Where are we to look for our survival, for the answers to
the questions which have never before been posed؟ We must look, first, to the Almighty God,
Who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We
must put our faith in Him, that He will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which He
.created in His image

And we must look into ourselves, into the depth of our souls. We must become something we
-have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill
.prepared us
We must become bigger than we have been : more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in
outlook. 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

Haile Selassie I
4 October 1963
United Nations, New York

;Yeh! Holy Mount Zion
;Holy Mount Zion
Jah sitteth in Mount Zion
.And rules all creation