In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
Haile Selassie, Address at Haile Selassie I University (now Addis Ababa University) honoring Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (13 October 1965).