UN General Assembly
1991

Gross national product statistics are meaningless if they answer only the questions of how well-fed, how well-housed, how well-clothed the people are. The statistics of our computerized bureaus must also respond to the demanding enquiry: how free are these people? The record of the United Nations must contain in detail the ongoing story of the ascent to dignity and freedom of humanity en masse. Let the nations of the world applaud the people of the world. For this, indeed, is the quarter century of the people.