In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of community involvement and collaboration for global development and renewal.
Kofi Annan highlights the increasing acknowledgment of the vital role that community engagement and partnerships with civil society play in fostering development and renewal on a global scale. In a world where challenges are interconnected, the potential for collaborative efforts to bring about positive change is becoming more apparent, suggesting that collective action is essential for addressing pressing issues and enhancing societal well-being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for volunteerism and community service.
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.
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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