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Quotes from Truman Library address — Kofi Annan

1938–2018 Ghana

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In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

Truman Library address (2006)

It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.

Truman Library address (2006)

The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level.

Truman Library address (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kofi Annan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.