Kofi Annan Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

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  Religious, Effort, Understanding

  "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and by UN agencies". www.un.org. September 16, 2004.

• ...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

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  Time, Rights, Humanity

• 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 mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

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  Lying, Fate, Ideas

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

• In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

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  Peace, War, Law

• You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

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  Moving, Dangerous Situations, People

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

• As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.

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  People, Heaven, Humanity

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 18, 2012.

• I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

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  Cutting, July, Humanity

• The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

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  People, Community, Humanity

  "Can Globalization Really Solve Our Problems?". Awake! Magazine, May 22, 2002.

• Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

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  Water, Humanity, Survival

  "Is the World Running Out of Water?". Awake! magazine, June 22, 2001.

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