Pope John XXIII - Pacem in terris (1963)

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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

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Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.

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If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than man.

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[In the universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948] in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

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The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

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[Peace must be] founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, and put into practice in freedom.

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The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

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