"With an agenda dominated by global security and……" — 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 abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve."
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13 Quotes by Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo has 13 quotes on this site.
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This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders…
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Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the…
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles,…
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My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our…
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Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that.…
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There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom…
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The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations –…
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You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in…
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The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport…
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Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'
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If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and…
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A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our…
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More Abject Quotes
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
— John O. Brennan
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
— Charles Darwin
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
— William Hazlitt
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
— George Washington
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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