UN General Assembly
1959

The peoples of America have been united solely under the spur of peace and they seek not only to uphold and consolidate peace on our continent but also to extend it, if possible, to the all too often blood-stained frontiers of Europe. Apart from their devotion to peace, the Latin American countries, imbued as they are with the highest spiritual concepts of the West, have, from, the earliest days been keenly aware of the need to uphold the fundamental values of freedom, equality and social justice. It was in the Spanish colonies of America that a statute based on the equality of all men, without racial discrimination, was first drawn up, and from it springs the democratic spirit of our peoples and the solidarity with all the peoples of the earth which we have cultivated through the floods of immigrants to our shores.