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is a concrete program which I have sought to offer today. So let us get down to business. Let us direct our eyes towards our great goals--national independence, economic development, racial justice--goals that can be achieved by common action.
Africa in this decade is a testing ground of the world's conscience and vision. That blacks and whites live together in harmony and equality is a moral imperative of our time. Let us prove that these goals can be realized by human choice, that justice can command by the force of its rightness instead of by force of arms.
These are ideals that bind all the races of mankind. They are the mandate of decency and progress and peace.
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This drama will be played out in our own lifetime. children will inherit either our success or our failure. The world watches with hope and we approach it with confidence.
So let it be said that black people and white people working together achieved on this continent--which has suffered so much and seen so much ihjustice--a new era of peace, well-being and human dignity.
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