UN General Assembly
1952

32. The principle which dominates the whole of our international life is undoubtedly the principle of equality. This basic principle goes to the very roots of our Organization. It is the basis on which the United Nations was built: the equality of races, the equality of peoples, the equality of individuals. For the United Nations cannot be anything but a society of equals in a universal democracy, as we are and should be in each of our individual countries equal citizens in a national democracy. This equality which the Charter has emphasized by repetition and which constitutes, so to speak, the very soul of our Organization, without which it could not live, this sovereign equality, applicable to all races, nations and individuals, carries with it the triple corollary of non-discrimination on grounds of race, respect for the rights of peoples and respect for the rights of individuals.