'The Somali,' he told the Assembly 'form a single race, practise the same religion and speak a single language. They inhabit a vast territory which, in its turn, constitutes a well-defined geographic unit. All must know that the government of Somalia will strive its uttermost, with the legal and peaceful means which are its democratic prerogative to attain this end: the union of Somalis, until all Somalis form a single Greater Somalia.'

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 416