UN General Assembly
1960

51. I hope that this message, transmitted to you on behalf of my Government and of the people of Haiti, will remind you of the close links between my country and yours, 52. In addressing you, gentlemen, I have tried to consider certain international situations which affect us all and at times cause us concern and even alarm. I have said nothing which my conscience could not approve and have tried to offend nobody even though we might hold contrary opinions. In our opinion the purpose of this rostrum is to bring men together and not to separate them. Our words should encourage peaceful coexistence and not hatred. We are here to build, not to destroy. What has chiefly struck us in this troubled world is the fact that while some countries are moving towards a kind of socialism in their own way, in others the early collectivism has become more flexible and human. Thus each side has borrowed something from the other, which may indicate the beginning of a system in which the social sense, with man in his incomparable dignity as a centre of attraction, will enable us to build in the general interest the better world for which we have been seeking for so long.