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Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all.

Ban Ki-moon

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.
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Delay Longer More Pay
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.
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Humanity War Winter
On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.
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Passion Peace Priorities
Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.
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Attacking Children Sleep
Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women – and that a woman’s place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.
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Home Real School
The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.
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Country Leader People
Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the “three zeros” zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
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Hiv Infection Sight Zero
The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
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Arm Fund Over World
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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Disease Poverty Step
I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.
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Leader Speaks Out Want
I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.
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Leader People Regret
Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women’s empowerment – these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
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Empowerment Issues Water
With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
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Book Determination Girl
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family
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Expression Fabric Safety
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty
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Literate Poverty Victory
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

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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