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I Think The Ultimate Sense Of Security Will Be When We Come To Recognize That We Are All Part Of One Human Race. Our Primary Allegiance Is To The Human Race And Not To One Particular Color Or Border. I Think The Sooner We Renounce The Sanctity Of These Many Identities And Try To Identify Ourselves With The Human Race The Sooner We Will Get A Better World And A Safer World.

-Mohamed ElBaradei

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Mohamed ElBaradei

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I Think The Ultimate Sense Of Security Will Be When We Come To Recognize That We Are All Part Of One Human Race. Our Primary Allegiance Is To The Human Race And Not To One Particular Color Or Border. I Think The Sooner We Renounce The Sanctity Of These Many Identities And Try To Identify Ourselves With The Human Race The Sooner We Will Get A Better World And A Safer World.

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