We've got it together, worked it out. We're...not big enough to not do that. Divided we fall and everything y'know?

[They need to be able to find togetherness in this, or they'll be swallowed whole. ]

Especially with that oil there. We could have been left alone, but not now. And I don't think we should be. We need to take our place in the world, just like the others. It's bad enough the Air Nomads are gone, we need to be able to keep the South going, too.