Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

I think the world has moved on.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.