Unity Should Be The Cornerstone Of Relations

We Should Accept Diversity In Culture And Tradition And Coexist Peacefully.

Until All Africans Stand And Speak As Free Human Beings, Equal In The Eyes Of The Almighty; Until That Day, The African Continent Shall Not Know Peace.

Like Twentieth-century Iran, The Remnant Of The Persian Empire, Ethiopia Under Haile Selassie Attempted To Preserve The Absolutist State Throught An Accommodation With Modernizing Forces In His Own Terms Without Completely Subduing Traditionalists. This Was Not A Strategy Of Haile Selassie's Own Choosing. Instead, He Was Overtaken By Events And Forced To Deal With Contradictions That Were From The Very Beginning Too Formidable To Be Managed In The Long Term.

Observe That Anyone Who Dies For His Country Is A Fortunate Man, But Death Takes What It Wants, Indiscriminately, In Peace-time As Well As In War. It Is Better To Die With Freedom Than Without It.

The United Nations Continues To Sense As The Forum Where Nations Whose Interests Clash May Lay Their Cases Before World Opinion.