Ghanaian - Statesman | April 8, 1938 - August 18, 2018
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Kofi Annan
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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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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.
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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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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.
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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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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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Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.
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