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Our atmosphere can’t tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

Ban Ki-moon

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.
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Business Suicide Thinking
Society’s dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
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Fossils Fuel Progress
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all.
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Action Climate Foundation Opportunity
The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
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Arm Fund Over World
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
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Grandchildren Hands Suffering
With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
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Book Determination Girl
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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Disease Poverty Step
Reason doesn’t mean very much in a country like North Korea.
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Country Korea Mean
I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
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Fundamentals Principles Rights
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
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Government Leader Political
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
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Humanity People Use
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.
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Challenges Climate Doe
The longer we delay, the more we will pay.
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Delay Longer More Pay
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Memories Rain School
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty
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Literate Poverty Victory
I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us – men and boys – refuse to tolerate it.
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Boys Girl Powerful

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