OUR DREAMS 2
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO):
The Governments of the States Parties to this Constitution on behalf of their peoples declare:
That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed;
That ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war;
That the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible
by the denial of the democratic principles of the dignity, equality and mutual
respect of men, and by the propagation, in their place, through ignorance and
prejudice, of the doctrine of the inequality of men and races;
That the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice
and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a
sacred duty which all the nations must fulfill in a spirit of mutual assistance
and concern;
That a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements
of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting
and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore
be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of
mankind.
(Cited from the "preface" of Constitution of UNESCO)
the Constitution of UNESCO : http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15244&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html