Black and White

In those days, so many people were looking for black and white. They saw one person as white, another as black. Someone who had been white turned black; someone who had been black faded to a silent gray… But you and I, and many of you, were looking for color. We were looking for green, white, and red, for the golden glint of our Lion and Sun… People of my homeland, my fellow Iranians, my friends, pieces of my own flesh: let us think of our Iran, of a rainbow that will not remain just a wish for our children. We will find the color of decency in our country… Long live Iran. Long live the Shah.