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"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."

Equality, Development, Goal, Building

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."

Want,

"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."

Nation, Country, Justice, Principles, Sight

"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."

People, Values, Benefits, Globalization

"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."

Opportunity, Iraq, Security

"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."

People, Values, Confidence

"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."

Society, Business, Community, Labor

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Education, Family, Power, Society

"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."

People, Hope, Countries, Open

"The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone."

Work, Being

Exlpore more Freedom quotes

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Freedom, Responsibility

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Freedom, Society

"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Freedom, Death, Brothers, Nothing, Sisters

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Freedom, Gain

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Freedom, Ideas, Man

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Freedom, Power, People, Duty, Right

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Freedom, Mountains, Now, World

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Freedom, Liberty, Order

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Freedom, Power, Enemy, Liberty

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Freedom, Change, Values, Circumstances, Conscience