UN General Assembly
1950

160. The first realization that is needed — and it will bear reiteration — is that mankind is one. Everything that calls that fundamental in question or is in conflict with it is based on falsehood and must be speedily set right and brought into accord with it. This applies to all spheres, spiritual, moral, social, economic, political. So long as any such conflict remains unresolved, all beneficent effort will be obstructed and end in frustration. 161. With regard to our economic conflicts, the basic reality here is that we must eliminate want, exposure and sickness. A man who is hungry, ill-clad, exposed or disease-ridden will not long cherish ambition or sustain hope and will soon become desperate. He will fall an easy prey to disorders and diseases of the mind, intellect and spirit that destroy more widely and effectively than hunger and disease of the body.