UN General Assembly
1967

61. Human rights are not negotiable. They were not negotiable either in the First World War or in the Second. They are not negotiable in Rhodesia and other Territories in southern Africa. The United Nations must take appropriate action to stop conflict which has already started. It may look small now, but if nothing is done it will one day be too late to prevent a wider catastrophe. What is needed is a war-avoidance action, not a war-stopping action. This is the hour for action in southern Africa. It would be dangerous for the United Nations to wait for any further warning signs, for delay may cost the world a fortune in blood and property.