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If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

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Kofi Annan
Age: 80 †
Born: 1938
Born: April 8
Died: 2018
Died: August 18
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Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.
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It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.
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These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.
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Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace
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I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.
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I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.
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The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.
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The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?
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I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.
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Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not of the East or the West, he wrote. No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free.
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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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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.
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There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back.
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Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.
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The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
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Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.
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If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
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Achieving the MDGs is not optional it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform
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You have to develop a certain healthy distance to allow you to keep a clear head, to be able to analyse the situation, lead your team, and move forward with them, because there are times if I'm not careful... if you get too involved, it will consume you it will consume you, and you will not be good to your team the issues you are dealing with.
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