Kofi Annan Quotes

• We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

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• We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

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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.

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• We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

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• We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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• It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

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• Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

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• In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

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• In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

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Kofi Annan (31)

Birth:	8th April, 1938
Nationality:	Ghanaian
Profession:	Activist, Politician

About

Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." He is the Chairman of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela.

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