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We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
- Kofi Annan
#Globalization
#People
#Values
#World
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
#Impact
#Morning
#Questions
#Up
#Wake Up
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
#End
#Leadership
#Opportunity
#Suffering
The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
- Kofi Annan
#Country
#Else
#Independence
#Me
#Process
The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.
- Kofi Annan
#Country
#Fight
#Independence
#Power
#Run
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
- Kofi Annan
#Drawing
#Plans
#Unemployment
#Up
#Youth
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
#Awareness
#Believe
#Life
#New
#Religion
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
- Kofi Annan
#Development
#Equality
#More
#Women
Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.
- Kofi Annan
#Climate
#Energy
#Growth
#Investment
#New
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
#History
#Hope
#People
#Poverty
#World
In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
- Kofi Annan
#Greatest
#Need
#People
#Rwanda
#World
Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
- Kofi Annan
#Know
#Me
#Situation
#Sometimes
#Walk
Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.
- Kofi Annan
#Country
#Doing
#Law
#Mistake
#Respect
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
- Kofi Annan
#Alive
#Better
#Hope
#Need
#Strive
As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.
- Kofi Annan
#Inequality
#Long
#Problems
#Try
#Will
On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
- Kofi Annan
#Change
#Climate Change
#Climate
#Waiting
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
- Kofi Annan
#Freedom
#Going
#Liberty
#Should
#Side
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
- Kofi Annan
#Arguing
#Globalization
#Gravity
#Laws
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
#Go
#Know
#Live
#Stand
#Why
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
#Destiny
#Face
#History
#Together
#Why
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- Kofi Annan
#Democracy
#Education
#Freedom
#Power
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
- Kofi Annan
#Alone
#Being
#Lord
#Wonderful
#Work
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- Kofi Annan
#Education
#Family
#Knowledge
#Power
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
#Equality
#Good
#Sustainable Development
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