UN General Assembly
1963

56. I am referring, as you will have realized, to apartheid and to the mad adventure which Portugal is desperately trying to continue on our continent. If there is one fundamental and positive factor for peace, it is, without the slightest doubt, decolonization. The reason we in Africa have placed this problem in the forefront is that we consider that there will be no peace so long as there are these zones of silence in which certain Powers persist in openly violating the spirit of peace. 57. The African countries represented at Addis Ababa were unanimous in condemning colonialism, which is today an anachronism and a danger to the world. We all know the insane obstinacy and stubbornness of those who are defending the last strongholds of colonialism in Africa. In the name of the universal morality which inspires our Charter, in the name of the honour and the defence of Africans, and in the name of justice and law, Africa will employ every means to bar the way to these paladins of a bygone world.