UN General Assembly
1950

72. My country, Liberia, an African sovereign State on the West coast of Africa, cannot be unconcerned and disinterested in the fortunes and conditions of all the inhabitants and peoples of Africa, more especially those of West Africa. We are, therefore, naturally in sympathy with the aspirations for freedom and the demands for political independence of those peoples of Africa who may now, and in the not too distant future, be prepared, by the general standard set up by the civilized world, to govern themselves in an orderly and peaceful manner. They have our deepest sympathy.