"We must live in peace with our former colonizers, shunning recrimination and bitterness and foreswearing the luxury or vengeance and retaliation, lest the acid of hatred erode our souls and poison our hearts. Let us act as befits the dignity which we claim ourselves as Africans, proud of our own special qualities, distinctions, and abilities. We must speak out on major issues, courageously, openly and honestly and in blunt terms of right and wrong. "H.I.M.