UN General Assembly
1964

37. Racism, however, has not disappeared from the world, since some believe in it and others use it. We feel bound to state that racism may take on a new lease of life, either because there are those who believe that the so-called dominant races must remain dominant, or because there are some who are interested in propagating the belief that the oppressed races must take revenge. Either way the result would be a cataclysm, and that must be avoided. Any struggle to destroy God's creation — and man is His noblest creature — would be savage; but, more than that, it would be futile. No race would predominate, because only man, with the help of truth and justice, can predominate. Human cruelty can destroy, lay waste and kill; but it cannot create a void. Man cannot destroy man altogether. God, in His merciful persistence, would rebuild. Nations and races would rise again, for they are not built of distinctions, differences and inequalities. They are varieties of a common, universal beauty.