“Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract – sustainable development – and turn it into a reality for all the world’s people”
- Kofi Annan
“One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them.”
- Filip Spagnoli
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead
“Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.”
- Yuri Kochiyama
“Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm”
- Paul Farmer
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved.
- Phil Harding
“People ‘over-produce’ pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.”
- Ha-Joon Chang
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
- Robert Swan
“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
- Howard Zinn
