UN General Assembly
1959

143. If the goal of this association of nations is to deliver peoples from despair and to intervene effectively in the dialectic contradictions of history in order to achieve good through man's rational and spiritual action, it cannot allow this state of affairs to continue. The living conditions, sometimes sub-human, prevailing in many areas of the globe are fertile soil for many aberrations, for every kind of despotism and despair. In an era when interdependence among nations is becoming increasingly strong and widespread, the sad consequences of such evils are not confined to the countries where they exist, for they inexorably spread to disturb the tranquil existence of those more fortunate countries which might have believed themselves immune from the fluctuations of history. Solidarity based on understanding becomes a rational imperative if world peace is to be consolidated on a firmer basis than that of a balance of armaments. The duty of the hour, the need of the moment, is to free men from the anguish of the wretched present and the uncertain future; to vanquish the despair which darkens the mind, hardens the spirit, blunts noble sentiments, destroys the impulse to love and converts man into an instrument or an agent of aggression and hatred.