We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

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.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.