Gandhiji believed that truth and non-violence could bring peace, not only to individuals but also to nations and the international community. More than 31 yea

2019·Republic of India

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on behalf of 1.3 billion Indians. It is also a very special occasion because this year, the entire world is celebrating 150 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. His message of truth and non-violence is still very relevant for us today for peace, development and progress in the world. This year we witnessed t

2019·Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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fathers of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Golwalkar and Savarkar, and they will find out the truth. That ideology of hatred is what murdered the great Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. It was that ideology of hatred that inspired Narendra Modi to film a programme in 2002 against Muslims in Gujarat, where he was Chief Minist

2019·Guyana

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devolves upon us all, as Member States, to do the best we can to ensure continued progress. As I conclude, permit me to quote the words attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” I therefore encourage all of us not only to

2018·Thailand

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improve the way we produce and consume, the way we work and travel, and the way we live, in order to achieve sustainability and realize the SDGs. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, we must be the change that we wish to see in the world. Sustainable development can be achieved only when it is inclusive and responds to

2018·India

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ountries that are not beneficial to them. We should take every country’s goals into account. This year, India will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth. Mahatma’s favourite devotional hymn was “Vaishnav Jan To Tene Kahiye” or “Call those people Vaishnavas who feel the pain of others”. Its ess

2016·

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uired to meet the challenge. He or she should possess the ability to bring together hearts and minds and embody the values and courses of action that Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela exemplified in their lives. We need someone who transcends their group or circle, uniting and representing everyone and not just a

2016·India

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the date to submit our instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which will be 2 October, the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, who epitomized a lifestyle with the smallest possible carbon footprint. Let me now turn to a subject of critical importance, and which deeply concer

2015·Mauritius

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er at the domestic level or internationally. As we focus on peace and security, let us continue to let ourselves be inspired by the life and deeds of Mahatma Gandhi, whose birth date we are commemorating today. We have another golden opportunity here to pay tribute to the Mahatma, the apostle of nonviolence, the

2015·Luxembourg

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uncil more effective, transparent and representative of today’s world. Let me conclude my remarks as I began them, with a quotation. This one is from Mahatma Gandhi. I understand it as an exhortation and a reminder of the responsibilities that we must shoulder, if we want to realize the dream of the creators of o

2014·Burundi

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ast. Indeed, we made the firm commitment to bury the hatchet once and for all. That is why we have made our own the words of former Indian politician Mahatma Gandhi: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent”. With regard to good governance

2014·Ghana

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the power that rests in the hands of the people, ordinary individuals. Or, in the words of one of the greatest teachers and leaders of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world’’. Today our Jewish brothers and sisters are celebrating Rosh Hashanah, their New Year. To them

2012·India

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and multilingual society. Our civilizational ethos has been underpinned by peaceful coexistence and tolerance, values that the founder of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, placed at the core of India’s national life. Those principles are enshrined in our Constitution, which provides the foundation for our secular, demo

2012·Canada

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the frequent setbacks and the cost, which is often heavy, we know that the nations and peoples of the world are up to the challenge. As we celebrate Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday tomorrow, let us be inspired by his words: “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dir

2010·Finland

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o much more to combat discrimination and exclusion. Current consumption and production patterns need to be revised in many countries. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, there is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but there cannot be enough for everybody’s greed. Our stocktaking of the Millennium Development Go

2008·Thailand

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n helps no one, because, at the end of the day, in this interconnected globalized world, no one wins everything, but everyone can lose everything. As Mahatma Gandhi once admonished, “An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind”. We have a choice between progress and self- destruction, between cooperation

2007·Mauritius

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to observe and celebrate the International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October each year in recognition of the great apostle of peace and non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi. Mauritius is a strong advocate of all human rights and fundamental freedoms so much so that the founding fathers of our constitution ensured that hu

2007·Uruguay

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his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- second session. On behalf of my country, Uruguay, I would like to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and to all of those who today are paying their respects and are celebrating this International Day of Non-Violence. The Eastern Republic of Uruguay w

2007·India

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eral Assembly of resolution 61/271, deciding to annually observe the International Day of Non-Violence, on 2 October, the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. I also look forward to participation by Member States in the informal plenary meeting of the General Assembly and other functions being organized to

2007·Maldives

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ral Assembly on this historic day, when the United Nations is observing the International Day of Non-Violence. On this day, we pay special tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest men of all times. The Maldives has always been a country which has promoted peace, non-violence, tolerance and human rights. How

2006·The Republic of South Africa

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all the countries and organizations that spoke. Those who are capable of listening should take note of what that great son of India and South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi, said on this matter: “The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Cooperation which needs considerati

2005·India

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democratic and pluralistic. We also believe that we need to do much more to inculcate respect for and acceptance of pluralism. I am reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation, said: “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the la

1998·Poland

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fies acceptance of the nuclear option. The choice of the road of nuclear armaments by India and Pakistan comes as a blow to the ideals personified by Mahatma Gandhi. Together with the entire international community, we address to the leaders of India and Pakistan an appeal to refrain from any actions that could m

1995·India

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ith which the media has endowed it. It is argued sometimes that one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. This is specious logic. In 1922 Mahatma Gandhi suspended for several years the freedom struggle in India because, in an incident in the small village of Chauri Chaura, a mob burnt some policemen t

1994·India

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Tolerance, which is being celebrated by the United Nations; and the one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday of the apostle of 13 peace and moral force, Mahatma Gandhi, whose message only gains in relevance year after year.

1992·Kazakhstan

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l teachers of mankind, ranging from Lao-tse and Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ and Muhammad to the greatest of contemporary thinkers, of the calibre of Mahatma Gandhi, were born in our part of the world.

1992·Ireland

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ons. To respect human rights is to respect conscience itself, whose power for good has been illustrated many times in the course of this century by a Mahatma Gandhi, by a Martin Luther King, or, in the past few years, by a Vaclav Havel or a Nelson Mandela, who, from a prison cell - "enduring the most" changed his

1989·India

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fell upon him. Having see, the atrocities and indignities heaped upon man by man, having imbibed the lesson of truth and non-violence from his mentor Mahatma Gandhi, he emerged with a vision for India and for the world that was different from conventional wisdom.

1988·India

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net ready for the century drawing in upon it. Such an agenda must assess and chart the means of fulfilment of the minimum needs of man. The world, as Mahatma Gandhi put it, has enough to fulfil man's need, but not his greed. This distinction between need and greed becomes all the more real and crucial at a time w

1985·Barbados

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Moral excellence has not always been wanting. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther Ring confirmed to us that transcendent quality of the human spirit and its capacity for courageously confronting anything that impe

1984·Bahamas

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mes from the fact that globally every State is involved directly or indirectly in the web of military arsenals with which we could be destroyed. 136. Mahatma Gandhi, in his timelessly inimitable fashion, directed our attention to our responsibilities when he said: "If we are to reach real peace in this world and

1984·USA

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n the end, they always fall. Think on it—always. All through history the way of truth and love has always won." That "as the belief and the vision of Mahatma Gandhi, and it remains today a vision that is good and true. 66. "All is gift" is said to have been the favourite expression of another great spiritualist,

1983·India

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t step they should resume negotiations for disarmament and ban the production and testing of all nuclear weapons. 10. In four days we shall celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's one hundred and fourteenth birthday. There is renewed awareness of the continued relevance of his message of non-violence and tolerance.

1983·Belgium

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occasion have aroused in Belgium. Faithful to its own ideals, which have existed since its creation and which were laid down by its founding fathers, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru, India and its Prime Minister have gone back to the sources of true non-alignment, thus enhancing the prestige of the Movement. 249.

1982·United States of America

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edge. The Code of Ham¬murabi, the Bible, the Analects of Confucius, the teachings of the Buddha, the Koran, the insights of Shakespeare, the creed of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King—all these were arrangements of words. 201. Is it not profoundly revealing that the first victims of tyrants are words? No peopl

1978·Turkey

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an from rhetorical exchanges and propaganda activities. 64. Before I conclude my remarks, I should like to recall the phrase of a great man of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, who once wrote: "Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." It is the same belief which led my Governm

1977·Togo

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. The North refuses to endorse Aristotle's belief that wealth resided far more in use than in possession. 293. It also disregards these wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization perhaps does not mean the multiplication of needs, but rather the conscious and voluntary restraint of those needs. To wish to create a

1977·India

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Thirty years ago under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi our people courageously fought the might of a great imperial Power and ended its domination over India without resort to arms. Earlier this year our

1974·Upper Volta

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of the movement for national independence in his country and who founded his actions on the principle of non-violence. I am referring, of course, to Mahatma Gandhi. It was he who was the first to rise up and rebel against the cruel practices of the South African Government. Let us recall that he led a movement t

1973·India

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f human beings in South Africa. Only recently, the world was shocked with the brutal killing in Carletonville. 163. Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and I recall that he was the first man to rise and revolt against the cruel practices of the Government of South Africa. He led a movement for impro

1970·India

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cessor, Mrs. Angie Brooks Randolph. I would also repeat our admiration for U Thant, whose skill and dedication have won him our respect. 41. Today is Mahatma Gandhi's one-hundred-first birthday, and we in India will take a fresh pledge to dedicate ourselves once again to the ideals for which the Mahatma lived and

1970·Ceylon

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Minister of India reminded us that today is the 101st anniversary of the birth of the noblest apostle of peace and justice this modern age has known, Mahatma Gandhi. The world has long forgotten the weapon he forged and used with such telling effect, the weapon of satyagraha or nonviolence. If we can revive the M

1969·Mali

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whose sudden passing has caused us deep grief. 5. I should also like to associate my delegation with the tribute you have just paid to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, that great philosopher who gave mankind many lessons in wisdom and who throughout his life contributed to the establishment of peace and friendly co

1969·Ethiopia

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hen we are planning to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, we should also take cognizance of the centennial of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, and stop to ponder over the significance of his life and the examples that he has set. It is particularly befitting, because in all respects the lif

1969·Romania

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he Latin American school of diplomacy. 41. May I, Madam President, associate myself with the feelings of profound respect you have just expressed for Mahatma Gandhi, one of the great figures in the achievement of independence by the Indian people and indeed in the history of modern times. We join all those indivi

1969·Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

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in its relevance to the objectives and purposes of the United Nations and the problems it has yet to solve. I refer to the centenary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi, who, by precept and example, demonstrated to the world the efficacy of satyagraha as a weapon against oppression, discrimination and injustice, and

1969·Pakistan

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s culture, the nature of its aspirations, the event is so shocking as to be incredible, all the more so since it has taken place in the birthplace of Gandhiji, whose centenary is being celebrated today. 184. I am putting the truth plainly.

1965·India

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We in India have been associated with the struggle for racial equality in South Africa for the past sixty years. The name of Mahatma Gandhi is synonymous with this struggle. We first brought up this matter before the United Nations in 1946 and we were the first country to break diplomatic

1965·Jordan

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ve in the principle of self-determination for all peoples everywhere. This belief is strengthened by the great teachings of India's founding fathers, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru, who, I am sure, would not and did not exclude the people of Kashmir from this elemental faith of humanity. 32. In making our point

1964·India

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The struggle for racial equality in South Africa is associated with the name of Mahatma Gandhi and we have, ever since, been in the vanguard of the struggle. For eighteen years now, this Organization has put up with the flagrant disrespect and

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Year	Country	Context	Speech
1969	India	Gandhiji believed that truth and non-violence could bring peace, not only to individuals but also to nations and the international community. More than 31 yea	View
2019	Republic of India	on behalf of 1.3 billion Indians. It is also a very special occasion because this year, the entire world is celebrating 150 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. His message of truth and non-violence is still very relevant for us today for peace, development and progress in the world. This year we witnessed t	View
2019	Islamic Republic of Pakistan	fathers of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Golwalkar and Savarkar, and they will find out the truth. That ideology of hatred is what murdered the great Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. It was that ideology of hatred that inspired Narendra Modi to film a programme in 2002 against Muslims in Gujarat, where he was Chief Minist	View
2019	Guyana	devolves upon us all, as Member States, to do the best we can to ensure continued progress. As I conclude, permit me to quote the words attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” I therefore encourage all of us not only to	View
2018	Thailand	improve the way we produce and consume, the way we work and travel, and the way we live, in order to achieve sustainability and realize the SDGs. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, we must be the change that we wish to see in the world. Sustainable development can be achieved only when it is inclusive and responds to	View
2018	India	ountries that are not beneficial to them. We should take every country’s goals into account. This year, India will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth. Mahatma’s favourite devotional hymn was “Vaishnav Jan To Tene Kahiye” or “Call those people Vaishnavas who feel the pain of others”. Its ess	View
2016		uired to meet the challenge. He or she should possess the ability to bring together hearts and minds and embody the values and courses of action that Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela exemplified in their lives. We need someone who transcends their group or circle, uniting and representing everyone and not just a	View
2016	India	the date to submit our instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which will be 2 October, the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, who epitomized a lifestyle with the smallest possible carbon footprint. Let me now turn to a subject of critical importance, and which deeply concer	View
2015	Mauritius	er at the domestic level or internationally. As we focus on peace and security, let us continue to let ourselves be inspired by the life and deeds of Mahatma Gandhi, whose birth date we are commemorating today. We have another golden opportunity here to pay tribute to the Mahatma, the apostle of nonviolence, the	View
2015	Luxembourg	uncil more effective, transparent and representative of today’s world. Let me conclude my remarks as I began them, with a quotation. This one is from Mahatma Gandhi. I understand it as an exhortation and a reminder of the responsibilities that we must shoulder, if we want to realize the dream of the creators of o	View
2014	Burundi	ast. Indeed, we made the firm commitment to bury the hatchet once and for all. That is why we have made our own the words of former Indian politician Mahatma Gandhi: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent”. With regard to good governance	View
2014	Ghana	the power that rests in the hands of the people, ordinary individuals. Or, in the words of one of the greatest teachers and leaders of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world’’. Today our Jewish brothers and sisters are celebrating Rosh Hashanah, their New Year. To them	View
2012	India	and multilingual society. Our civilizational ethos has been underpinned by peaceful coexistence and tolerance, values that the founder of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, placed at the core of India’s national life. Those principles are enshrined in our Constitution, which provides the foundation for our secular, demo	View
2012	Canada	the frequent setbacks and the cost, which is often heavy, we know that the nations and peoples of the world are up to the challenge. As we celebrate Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday tomorrow, let us be inspired by his words: “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dir	View
2010	Finland	o much more to combat discrimination and exclusion. Current consumption and production patterns need to be revised in many countries. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, there is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but there cannot be enough for everybody’s greed. Our stocktaking of the Millennium Development Go	View
2008	Thailand	n helps no one, because, at the end of the day, in this interconnected globalized world, no one wins everything, but everyone can lose everything. As Mahatma Gandhi once admonished, “An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind”. We have a choice between progress and self- destruction, between cooperation	View
2007	Mauritius	to observe and celebrate the International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October each year in recognition of the great apostle of peace and non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi. Mauritius is a strong advocate of all human rights and fundamental freedoms so much so that the founding fathers of our constitution ensured that hu	View
2007	Uruguay	his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- second session. On behalf of my country, Uruguay, I would like to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and to all of those who today are paying their respects and are celebrating this International Day of Non-Violence. The Eastern Republic of Uruguay w	View
2007	India	eral Assembly of resolution 61/271, deciding to annually observe the International Day of Non-Violence, on 2 October, the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. I also look forward to participation by Member States in the informal plenary meeting of the General Assembly and other functions being organized to	View
2007	Maldives	ral Assembly on this historic day, when the United Nations is observing the International Day of Non-Violence. On this day, we pay special tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest men of all times. The Maldives has always been a country which has promoted peace, non-violence, tolerance and human rights. How	View
2006	The Republic of South Africa	all the countries and organizations that spoke. Those who are capable of listening should take note of what that great son of India and South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi, said on this matter: “The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Cooperation which needs considerati	View
2005	India	democratic and pluralistic. We also believe that we need to do much more to inculcate respect for and acceptance of pluralism. I am reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation, said: “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the la	View
1998	Poland	fies acceptance of the nuclear option. The choice of the road of nuclear armaments by India and Pakistan comes as a blow to the ideals personified by Mahatma Gandhi. Together with the entire international community, we address to the leaders of India and Pakistan an appeal to refrain from any actions that could m	View
1995	India	ith which the media has endowed it. It is argued sometimes that one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. This is specious logic. In 1922 Mahatma Gandhi suspended for several years the freedom struggle in India because, in an incident in the small village of Chauri Chaura, a mob burnt some policemen t	View
1994	India	Tolerance, which is being celebrated by the United Nations; and the one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday of the apostle of 13 peace and moral force, Mahatma Gandhi, whose message only gains in relevance year after year.	View
1992	Kazakhstan	l teachers of mankind, ranging from Lao-tse and Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ and Muhammad to the greatest of contemporary thinkers, of the calibre of Mahatma Gandhi, were born in our part of the world.	View
1992	Ireland	ons. To respect human rights is to respect conscience itself, whose power for good has been illustrated many times in the course of this century by a Mahatma Gandhi, by a Martin Luther King, or, in the past few years, by a Vaclav Havel or a Nelson Mandela, who, from a prison cell - "enduring the most" changed his	View
1989	India	fell upon him. Having see, the atrocities and indignities heaped upon man by man, having imbibed the lesson of truth and non-violence from his mentor Mahatma Gandhi, he emerged with a vision for India and for the world that was different from conventional wisdom.	View
1988	India	net ready for the century drawing in upon it. Such an agenda must assess and chart the means of fulfilment of the minimum needs of man. The world, as Mahatma Gandhi put it, has enough to fulfil man's need, but not his greed. This distinction between need and greed becomes all the more real and crucial at a time w	View
1985	Barbados	Moral excellence has not always been wanting. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther Ring confirmed to us that transcendent quality of the human spirit and its capacity for courageously confronting anything that impe	View
1984	Bahamas	mes from the fact that globally every State is involved directly or indirectly in the web of military arsenals with which we could be destroyed. 136. Mahatma Gandhi, in his timelessly inimitable fashion, directed our attention to our responsibilities when he said: "If we are to reach real peace in this world and	View
1984	USA	n the end, they always fall. Think on it—always. All through history the way of truth and love has always won." That "as the belief and the vision of Mahatma Gandhi, and it remains today a vision that is good and true. 66. "All is gift" is said to have been the favourite expression of another great spiritualist,	View
1983	India	t step they should resume negotiations for disarmament and ban the production and testing of all nuclear weapons. 10. In four days we shall celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's one hundred and fourteenth birthday. There is renewed awareness of the continued relevance of his message of non-violence and tolerance.	View
1983	Belgium	occasion have aroused in Belgium. Faithful to its own ideals, which have existed since its creation and which were laid down by its founding fathers, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru, India and its Prime Minister have gone back to the sources of true non-alignment, thus enhancing the prestige of the Movement. 249.	View
1982	United States of America	edge. The Code of Ham¬murabi, the Bible, the Analects of Confucius, the teachings of the Buddha, the Koran, the insights of Shakespeare, the creed of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King—all these were arrangements of words. 201. Is it not profoundly revealing that the first victims of tyrants are words? No peopl	View
1978	Turkey	an from rhetorical exchanges and propaganda activities. 64. Before I conclude my remarks, I should like to recall the phrase of a great man of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, who once wrote: "Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." It is the same belief which led my Governm	View
1977	Togo	. The North refuses to endorse Aristotle's belief that wealth resided far more in use than in possession. 293. It also disregards these wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization perhaps does not mean the multiplication of needs, but rather the conscious and voluntary restraint of those needs. To wish to create a	View
1977	India	Thirty years ago under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi our people courageously fought the might of a great imperial Power and ended its domination over India without resort to arms. Earlier this year our	View
1974	Upper Volta	of the movement for national independence in his country and who founded his actions on the principle of non-violence. I am referring, of course, to Mahatma Gandhi. It was he who was the first to rise up and rebel against the cruel practices of the South African Government. Let us recall that he led a movement t	View
1973	India	f human beings in South Africa. Only recently, the world was shocked with the brutal killing in Carletonville. 163. Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and I recall that he was the first man to rise and revolt against the cruel practices of the Government of South Africa. He led a movement for impro	View
1970	India	cessor, Mrs. Angie Brooks Randolph. I would also repeat our admiration for U Thant, whose skill and dedication have won him our respect. 41. Today is Mahatma Gandhi's one-hundred-first birthday, and we in India will take a fresh pledge to dedicate ourselves once again to the ideals for which the Mahatma lived and	View
1970	Ceylon	Minister of India reminded us that today is the 101st anniversary of the birth of the noblest apostle of peace and justice this modern age has known, Mahatma Gandhi. The world has long forgotten the weapon he forged and used with such telling effect, the weapon of satyagraha or nonviolence. If we can revive the M	View
1969	Mali	whose sudden passing has caused us deep grief. 5. I should also like to associate my delegation with the tribute you have just paid to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, that great philosopher who gave mankind many lessons in wisdom and who throughout his life contributed to the establishment of peace and friendly co	View
1969	Ethiopia	hen we are planning to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, we should also take cognizance of the centennial of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, and stop to ponder over the significance of his life and the examples that he has set. It is particularly befitting, because in all respects the lif	View
1969	Romania	he Latin American school of diplomacy. 41. May I, Madam President, associate myself with the feelings of profound respect you have just expressed for Mahatma Gandhi, one of the great figures in the achievement of independence by the Indian people and indeed in the history of modern times. We join all those indivi	View
1969	Ceylon (Sri Lanka)	in its relevance to the objectives and purposes of the United Nations and the problems it has yet to solve. I refer to the centenary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi, who, by precept and example, demonstrated to the world the efficacy of satyagraha as a weapon against oppression, discrimination and injustice, and	View
1969	Pakistan	s culture, the nature of its aspirations, the event is so shocking as to be incredible, all the more so since it has taken place in the birthplace of Gandhiji, whose centenary is being celebrated today. 184. I am putting the truth plainly.	View
1965	India	We in India have been associated with the struggle for racial equality in South Africa for the past sixty years. The name of Mahatma Gandhi is synonymous with this struggle. We first brought up this matter before the United Nations in 1946 and we were the first country to break diplomatic	View
1965	Jordan	ve in the principle of self-determination for all peoples everywhere. This belief is strengthened by the great teachings of India's founding fathers, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru, who, I am sure, would not and did not exclude the people of Kashmir from this elemental faith of humanity. 32. In making our point	View
1964	India	The struggle for racial equality in South Africa is associated with the name of Mahatma Gandhi and we have, ever since, been in the vanguard of the struggle. For eighteen years now, this Organization has put up with the flagrant disrespect and	View

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