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kofi annan (Diplomat)

When states decide to use force to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations.
— kofi annan peace
If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.
— kofi annan justice
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society in .. every family.
— kofi annan education
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
— kofi annan leadership
Knowledge is power. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
— Kofi Annan education
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
— Kofi Annan live
The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
— Kofi Annan history
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
— Kofi Annan children
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
— Kofi Annan life
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
— Kofi Annan peace
Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them--dis
— Kofi Annan art
The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard.
— Kofi Annan hope
You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.
— Kofi Annan change
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.
— Kofi Annan art
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
— Kofi Annan hope
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
— Kofi Annan freedom
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
— Kofi Annan justice
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
— Kofi Annan justice
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
— Kofi Annan history
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
— Kofi Annan time
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
— Kofi Annan life
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the worlds people share the benefits of globalization.
— Kofi Annan people
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
— Kofi Annan law
More countries have understood that womens equality is a prerequisite for development.
— Kofi Annan women
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.
— Kofi Annan men
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
— Kofi Annan hope
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
— Kofi Annan life
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
— Kofi Annan society
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
— Kofi Annan work
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
— Kofi Annan leaders
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.
— Kofi Annan world
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
— Kofi Annan women
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
— Kofi Annan problems
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
— Kofi Annan man
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the worlds people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
— Kofi Annan art
In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
— Kofi Annan people
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
— Kofi Annan opportunity
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.
— Kofi Annan life
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
— Kofi Annan religion
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
— Kofi Annan people

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