President Sukarno of Indonesia:
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference, April 18, 1955
in the 20th century has been a period of great dynamism. Perhaps the last fifty years has been the development is looking more and more material progress of five hundred years earlier. Humans have learned to control many whip ever threaten him. She has learned to consume and interpret the distance. She has learned to direct the sound and picture in the oceans and continents. He has learned how to make the desert bloom and plants from the soil that increase their gifts. She has learned how to unleash the great power that is locked in the smallest particles of matter.
But if the political skill of man marching hand-in-hand with technical and scientific skills? The answer is no! political skills humans have gone far beyond the technical skills, this result is fear. And people gasping for safety and morality.
Perhaps now more than any other time in world history, society, government and statesmanship should be based on the highest code of morality? it is subordinated everything to the welfare of mankind is not always the primary consideration. Many are located in places of high power think, more precisely, to control the world.
Yes, we live in a world of fear. Human life today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of hydrogen bomb, fear of ideology. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because of fear, which encourages people to act stupid, act without thinking, acting is dangerous.
We are all, I believe, is united by things that are more important than their shallow separates us. We are united, for example, by a common hatred of racism. And we are united with the same determination to preserve and stabilize peace in the world. We often say, "colonialism is dead." Let us not be deceived or even soothed by it. I tell you, colonialism is not dead yet. How can we say it is dead, so long as vast areas of Asia and Africa that are not free.
And, I beg you not to think only in the form of classical colonialism, which we of Indonesia, and our brothers in different parts of Asia and Africa, you know. Colonialism also has a modern dress, in the form of economic control, intellectual control, and physical control by a small but alien community with the nation.It is a skilled and determined enemy, and appears in many guises. It did not give loot easily. Wherever, whenever and however it appears, colonialism is an evil thing, and one that must be eradicated from the earth
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