UN General Assembly
1959

21. To this attitude, which is the logical consequence of Brazil's history and its international activity, Brazil adds today as a matter of highest priority the policy of international co-operation in the field of development, which is the policy of the future and the policy of hope. 22. We are profoundly convinced that, as the Brazilian Head of State has stated, apathy in the face of the problems of poverty, disease and ignorance in a world which has at its disposal every imaginable scientific and technical resource, is a crime against man's mind, an attack upon our alleged civilization, an unpardonable moral offence and an act of political imprudence which will have incalculable consequences for the peace of the world, 23. May these words of warning be heeded while there is still time.