UN General Assembly
1961

24. That missionary was called Fray Pedro de Cordoba and his arrival on the island of Santo Domingo is comparable in the history of America to Saint Paul's arrival at Athens, when the idols came crashing down from their pedestals and the cross on the breast of that apostle of human brotherhood opened its arms before all the people to promise men of good will not only that they should inherit the earth, but they should enter the Kingdom of Heaven and of infinite hope. Thus the doctrine on which this world Organization is founded was born in Santo Domingo, for it was there that an illustrious precursor of the great Spanish theologians of the Renaissance first proclaimed the right of everyone, including the aborigines of America, who were still on the fringe of civilization, to enjoy the rights which were thenceforth regarded as superior to any reason of State.