General Assembly Quotes

• The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

  "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Obama’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

  Warren Austin

  Spiritual, Idaho, Names

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• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Weapons, Firsts

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

  Douglas Alexander

  Scotland, Church, Edinburgh

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• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

  Harri Holkeri

  Issues, President, Better Life

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• If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Assembly, Increase

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• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Adversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Leader, Important, Topics

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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• It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Exercise, Community, Roles

  "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

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• ...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

  Dick Morris

  Thinking, Asking, Politics

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• When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Struggle

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Virginia, Support

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Agency, Rights, Adoption

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Today, Approval

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers”

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• I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.

  Robert Davi

  World, Assembly, China

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski,

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• President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

  Miriam Makeba

  Teacher, Advice, Trying

  "The long goodbye". Interview with Robin Denselow, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Angel, Men

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• All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

  James Lileks

  Needs, Politics, Pistols

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• You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Israel, Giving

  "One-on-one with Prime Minister Netanyahu". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U.N.] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.

  Susan Rice

  Years, People, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

  Albert Einstein

  Rights, Healthy, Independence

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• President Obama made a big speech. He welcomed the members of the U.N. General Assembly to New York, and he said, 'I'd like to encourage you to do some shopping while you're here.' I think it worked because China immediately bought eight banks, two car companies, and the state of Wyoming.

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, Thinking, Eight

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• If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

  John Oliver

  New York, Cities, Events

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