Kumi Naidoo

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of…

— Kumi Naidoo

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a…

— Kumi Naidoo

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from…

— Kumi Naidoo

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be…

— Kumi Naidoo

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

— Kumi Naidoo

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

— Kumi Naidoo

The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments,…

— Kumi Naidoo

Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing…

— Kumi Naidoo

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In…

— Kumi Naidoo

Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult…

— Kumi Naidoo

Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you…

— Kumi Naidoo

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

— Kumi Naidoo

Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need…

— Kumi Naidoo

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

— Kumi Naidoo

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

— Kumi Naidoo

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be…

— Kumi Naidoo

One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and…

— Kumi Naidoo

This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today.…

— Kumi Naidoo

I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress…

— Kumi Naidoo

Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes.

— Kumi Naidoo

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

— Kumi Naidoo

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to…

— Kumi Naidoo

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely…

— Kumi Naidoo

The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame.…

— Kumi Naidoo

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's…

— Kumi Naidoo