UN General Assembly
1976

120. In connexion with this fourth decade of the existence of the United Nations, optimism as we enter it is not exuberant; indeed, the challenges of peace and development have not been taken up, owing to a certain selfishness which manifests itself in international relations. However, we should not lose courage because we have imagination and the human and material resources necessary for our action. But each one of us must resolutely commit himself to wage this noble and ideal struggle to free two thirds of mankind from poverty, exploitation, ignorance and domination.