"It will forever remain an indelible blight on human history that the apartheid crime ever occurred. Future generations will surely ask: What error was made that this system established itself in the wake of the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights? It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has before all of us stood up to say: 'Enough is enough.'"

"When this august body, the United Nations, first discussed the South African question in l946, it was discussing the issue of racism."

"And yet for all that, a racist tyranny established itself in our country...It has established its own brutal worth by the number of children it has killed and the orphans, the widows, and widowers it can claim as its unique creation."

"We hold it as an inviolable principle that racism must be opposed by all the means that humanity has at its disposal. Wherever it occurs, it has the potential to result in a systematic and comprehensive denial of human rights to those who are discriminated against. This is because all racism is inherently a challenge to human rights, because it denies the view that every human being is a person of equal worth with any other, because it treats entire peoples as sub-human."

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