My personal edit, sourced mostly from a portion of Haile Selassie's address to the United Nations in 1963, made not just for one continent but all the world.
On the question of discrimination history has taught us, to those who are willing to learn, this lesson:
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another 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 or origin;
That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.
That until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers and sisters in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed;
That until bigotry, prejudice, malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding, tolerance and good-will;
That until all humans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all people, as they are in the eyes of Heaven;
That until that day, the world will not know peace. We must fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.
(image: President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy greet the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, upon his arrival in Washington, D.C. on the first of October 1963)
