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Letter "K" » Kofi Annan Quotes
«Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.»
Author: Kofi Annan
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About:
Nations,
Right
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Keywords:
all too,
calamity,
crises,
humanitarian,
Human rights,
national,
separate,
upheld,
uphold,
upholding,
upholds,
walls
«We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.»
«The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.»
«We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.»
«If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.»
«We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.»
«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 good governance.»
«No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.»
Author: Kofi Annan
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About:
Citizenship,
Democracy,
Teenage
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Keywords:
citizen,
cuts,
evolve,
included,
processes,
sever,
severed,
severing,
severs
«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?»
«If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.»