Kumi Naidoo Quotes

born 1965 South Africa

Kumi Naidoo (born 1965) is a South African human rights and climate justice activist. He is the current president of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, a joint diplomatic and civil society campaign to create a treaty to stop fossil fuel exploration and expansion and phase-out existing production in line with the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement, while supporting a just transition to renewable energy.

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Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

And part of what we need to do today is to genuinely, realistically, meaningfully create hope for young people that their participation can actually make things better.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.

Sometimes people say climate change threatens the planet. Well, actually, the planet will survive. What is at stake here is humanity's ability to live on this planet.

My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments, business and civil society – to focus on the legitimacy of their own actions.

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