UN General Assembly
1953

58. Egypt, which has suffered so much from imperialism, means to defend the cause of freedom wherever it needs to be defended. It is convinced that in doing so it is defending the Purposes and Principles of the Charter. Imperialism, which we thought dead and buried, has just raised its head and is again threatening international peace and security. The liberty of peoples and their right to self-determination were the principal objectives of the Allies and of the United Nations in the First and Second World Wars. They have been enshrined in the Charter of our Organization. I feel I must emphasize that the peoples should not, that they cannot, forever be misled or continue to be subjected, for all subjection is a destructive anacronism incompatible with any society worthy of this century. In other words, independence movements should be supported and assisted and not decapitated or throttled.