CULTURETECHLENSHaile Selassie UN address 1963
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Combined Graph record U-01432 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0062. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Emperor Haile Selassie addressed the United Nations on October 4th 1963 — the exact date enriching the stored year-only '1963'. The UN record (statement of Ethiopia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN General Assembly Third Committee, 4 Nov 2025, hosted on un.org) quotes the address: 'Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion...'
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Emperor Haile Selassie addressed the United Nations on October 4th 1963 — the exact date enriching the stored year-only '1963'. The UN record (statement of Ethiopia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN General Assembly Third Committee, 4 Nov 2025, hosted on un.org) quotes the address: 'Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; until the color of
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- https://estatements.un.org/estatements/11.0030/20251104150000000/EIgIhVHk/carheuMubNPY_nyc_en.pdf (verification source · master store)
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Emperor Haile Selassie addressed the United Nations on October 4th 1963 — the exact date enriching the stored year-only '1963'. The UN record (statement of Ethiopia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN General Assembly Third Committee, 4 Nov 2025, hosted on un.org) quotes the address: 'Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion...'
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