Kofi Annan Quotes

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building…
• To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go…
• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
• Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
• In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
• It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
• Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons…
• There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as…
• In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and…
• We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have…
• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my…
• If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
• We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
• I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of…
• The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact…
• We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's…
• Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the…
• literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

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