UN General Assembly
1952

43. The more advanced States, which have been granted the noble privilege of guiding the less developed countries towards the achievement of their legitimate aspirations, have sacred obligations to the international community, to history and to their own conscience. It is to this national conscience of the great peoples, to whom civilization owes so much, that we address our plea for an era of collaboration between them and the United Nations, in a work which is both political and profoundly human. 44. After equality of races and peoples, come the equality of individuals and their fundamental rights. No one can deny the importance of the work of drafting and the publicity which the United Nations is carrying on in that connexion. As I pay tribute to that assiduous and fruitful labour, I should like to express the hope that all States will do their best to grant the earliest possible enjoyment of these rights both to their own nationals and to the populations whom they administer.