Koichiro Matsuura famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Government #Society #Information
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational #Community #Literacy
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational #Poverty #Literacy
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational #Challenges #Moral
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational #Support #Community
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational #Democracy #Information
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.
-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Children #Educational #Mean

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
People's minds are overloaded with information.

Koichiro Matsuura famous quotes

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