UN General Assembly
1963

150. The development of a country calls for gigantic efforts from the population. Such efforts can be made only in free countries. As President Kayibanda has said, "at the present juncture of history, colonization, far from reducing under-development, merely consolidates and stratifies a situation which condemns the colonized being to a sub-existence". We who come from recently liberated countries, and have personal experience of colonialism, know how true this judgement is. Even If colonialism could be reproached with nothing more than this sub-existence to which it condemns the indigenous peoples, that would be sufficient reason to put an end to it as rapidly as possible.