UN General Assembly
1963

28. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil. 29. The United Nations has done much, both directly and indirectly, to speed the disappearance of discrimination and oppression from the earth. Without the opportunity to focus world opinion on Africa and Asia which this Organization provides, the goal might, for many, still lie ahead, and the struggle would have taken far longer. For this we are truly grateful. 30. But more can be done. The basis of racial discrimination and colonialism has been economic, and it is with economic weapons that these evils can be, and have been, overcome. In pursuance of resolutions adopted at the Addis Abada 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 intransigence 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.