QUOTES ON GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Acts 20:35
“In all things I
have shown you
that by working
hard in this way
we must help
the weak and
remember the
words of the Lord
Jesus, how he
himself said, ‘It
is more blessed
to give than to
receive.”
“No one is born a good
citizen; no nation is born
a democracy. Rather,
both are processes that
continue to evolve over
a lifetime. Young people
must be included from
birth. A society that cuts
off from its youth severs
its lifeline.”
Former U.N. Secretary
General and Ghanaian
diplomat Kofi Annan
“Pokoknya saya lima tahun
blusukan terus, mau ke
kampung terus, pokoknya
selama lima tahun. Pokoknya
ke bawah, ke kampung,
banyak ke lapangan. Setiap
gubernur itu punya gaya
sendiri. Gaya saya, ya gaya
blusukan.” Indonesian
President Joko Widodo
“IT’S NOT NATURAL
FOR PEOPLE TO
LIVE IN EXTREME
POVERTY AND I FEEL
PROUD TO BE PART
OF A MOVEMENT
THAT ISN’T JUST
BUILDING, IT’S HUGE
ALREADY.” HUGH
JACKMAN, ACTOR
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“NO ACT OF
KINDNESS,
NO MATTER
HOW SMALL, IS
EVER WASTED.”
FROM AESOP’S
“THE LION AND
THE MOUSE”
FABLE
“I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices.
I work very, very hard.” US President
Donald Trump, rejecting the
assertion made at the Democratic
convention by Muslim lawyer Khizr
Khan, whose son died in Iraq in
2004, that Trump had “sacrificed
nothing and no one.” Trump was
unable to name a single sacrifice
when pressed to elaborate. (ABC
News interview, July 30, 2016)
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