If there is to be hope for Somalis

[Futurist]

We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past and look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years to come hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past. If Somalis are to be saved from infinite misery, and indeed from final doom, there must be this act of faith in the Somali family, this act of oblivion against all crimes and follies of the past. Can the Somali people rise to the heights of the soul and of the instinct and spirit of man? If they could, the wrongs and injuries which have been inflicted would have been washed away on all sides by the miseries which have been endured. Is there any need for further floods of agony? Is the only lesson of history to be that Somali mankind is unteachable? Let there be justice, mercy and freedom Somalis. The Somali peoples have only to will it and all will achieve their heart's desire.

[Futurist]

We must live in hope.

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Peninsula home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. Even though large parts of the Somali Peninsula and many old and famous Somali Cities have fallen or may fall into the grip of the gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Farmaajo, Amisom, Ethiopian and Kenyan rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall defend our Peninsula, whatever the cost may be; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Peninsula or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our diaspora beyond the seas, would carry on the struggle.