"The ending of colonialism does not in itself result in social and economic progress: it provides the opportunities for it."
— Lee Kuan Yew

January 1, 1970

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Speech to the non-aligned summit in Lusaka (1970), quoted in "The man who worked an economic miracle", The Times (20 December 1984), p. 8