UN General Assembly
1968

10. Yet this does not happen. Year after year we listen to words condemning racialism. Meeting after meeting this Assembly passes resolutions condemning colonialism. And both continue. This can be so only because those nations which have the power to desist from colonial practices do not wish to do so. It can occur only because the powerful nations of the world care less about racialism than about maintaining their own dominance and their own privilege. Through you, Mr. President, I beg them to think of the consequences of what they are doing; the consequences to themselves and to all of us. For if racialism triumphs it will not be the majority of peoples of the world who will be its only, or its ultimate, victims. The nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America can be dominated now by those of Europe and North America, but this will not continue indefinitely. Either we all fight for human equality now, and for national freedom now, or the whole world will be engulfed in the chaos and misery of human conflict and degradation.