UN General Assembly
1964

97. The younger States refuse to be tools of trade. The world community outside Africa must learn to work with our souls also. I am not inviting intervention, of course. Far from it. We in the Sudan had to fend for ourselves, and this is as it should be. What I am saying is that essentially we are the same everywhere; striving for human dignity, tolerable conditions of living, and peace in the world. Without a modicum of material and moral parity the world will remain the risky place it has become at the moment. The poor cannot love the rich and the untutored cannot appreciate the cultivated.