The proposed Charter should, therefore, make clear and unequivocal the straightforward stand of the civilized world for race equality, and the universal application of the democratic way of life, not simply as philanthropy and justice, but to save human civilization from suicide. What was true of the United States in the past is true of world civilization today---we cannot exist half slave and half free.
W. E. B. Du Bois, commenting on the UN Charter at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, April 25th to June 26th, 1945.
Tuck, Steven. Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 202.
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