There is never a humanitarian solution for a humanitarian crisis. The solutions for the humanitarian crisis are always political ones.
Antonio GuterresRead
Let us recommit to supporting every girl to develop her skills, enter the workforce on equal terms, and reach her full potential.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of empowering girls through skill development and equal opportunities in the workforce.
Antonio Guterres highlights the need for society to actively support girls in developing their skills, ensuring they can compete fairly in the workforce and realize their full potential. This call to action underscores the belief that gender equality is essential for a balanced society and the growth of all individuals.
Themes
GirlsEmpowermentSkillsWorkforceEqualityPotential
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about gender equality, this quote can be used to inspire support for educational programs for girls.
More from Antonio Guterres
All quotes βAs a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.
Antonio GuterresRead
The world's problems transcend borders.
Antonio GuterresRead
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.
Antonio GuterresRead
The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
Antonio GuterresRead
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Antonio GuterresRead
Similar quotes
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.
Jean PiagetRead
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange
Jean-Francois LyotardRead
Educating the world's poorest girls can only be done with the firm commitment of many stakeholders - both domestic and international - to plan, fund, and build strong, sustainable, and equitable education systems.
Julia GillardRead
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
John HerseyRead
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia WoolfRead
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, userβs manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead