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What Is Globalization? And How Can We
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On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa
conference taught, to those that will learn this further lesson: that
until the philosophy that holds one race as superior and the other
inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; that until
there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation;
that until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the
color of his eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally
guaranteed to all without regard to race; until that day the dreams of
lasting peace, world citizenship, and the rule of international morality
will remain in but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued, but never attained.
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Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, excerpt from a speech titled“What Life
Has Taught Me” (1963), which later inspired Jamaican Rastafarian artists
Ras Michael and Bob Marley to cull the speech for the songs “Run Come
Rally” and “War” respectively
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