UN General Assembly
1966

107. Be that as it may, it should be said here that external aid, however useful, can be no more than a support for local efforts at economic development. The economic development of the developing countries must depend essentially on national efforts. Let us remember in this connexion that there can be no real economic development without the will to develop and awareness of what it implies. As President Ahmed Sekou Toure said recently, awareness of the need for development, the will to development and the mental outlook required for development are determining forces in their influence on the object and content of the choices promoting the evolution of man and society. Such awareness, such will, such a mental outlook are achieved only when young States devote themselves to transforming the social and economic structures inherited from the colonial system and imperialist exploitation. This necessary social revolution must not be effected for the profit of a feudal oligarchy with a set mentality of exploiting the majority of the people, whose well-being must be the ultimate concern.