...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of collective efforts to foster a culture of human rights for future generations.
Kofi Annan highlights the need for unified action in nurturing a culture of human rights, which is crucial for promoting freedom, security, and peace across nations. His words suggest that the responsibility lies with all individuals and nations to work collaboratively toward a future where these values are upheld, ensuring a better world for generations to come.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one might say this quote to inspire collective action.
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.
Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
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?
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what β and who β we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.
Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.
Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.
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