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Ban Ki-moon has 165 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable…
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are…
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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,…
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It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of…
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Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create…
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Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to…
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural…
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You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen…
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Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed…
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Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and…
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no…
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the…
— Bono
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Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it…
— John Legend
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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…
— Roger Moore
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,…
— Brad Pitt
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Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million…
— Rajiv Shah
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You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early,…
— Keith Brantly
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The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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