UN General Assembly
1962

149. Having said and accepted this as a premise, I am forced to state that with the disappearance of regions, the shrinking of continents and the transformation of the world into a single unit, however large it may be, all of us today belong to a single society. No society, whatever its social system, can countenance with impunity that the rich should grow richer and the poor should grow poorer or even remain plunged in poverty. Yet this has been and is going on and is very often becoming more pronounced.