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Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
George Ayittey
Corruption
World
Destruction
Cause
Problems
Naked
Carnage
States
Worst
Collapsed
Plunder
Horrendous
Vapid
Cases
Devastated
Economies
Leaving
Caused
Wake
Debris
Trails
Dictators
Human
Wanton
Grand
Theft
Treasury
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Community
Society
Progressive
Way
About
Results
Journalism
Most
Affecting
Your
In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
Kofi Annan
People
World
Failed
Hour
Greatest
Need
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.
Kofi Annan
Confidence
Together
People
Values
National
Market
Markets
Minimum
Shared
New
Global
Global Market
Held
Certain
Standards
If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.
Kofi Annan
Change
Will
Believe
Other
Ways
Citizens
Find
Risk
Through
Leaders
Countries
Box
Ballot
Ballot Box
Even
With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
John Agyekum Kufuor
God
History
Guidance
Chapter
Our
Unpleasant
See
Shall
Soon
Most
End
Help
With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
John Dramani Mahama
You
People
Progress
Better
Sometimes
Before
Expectation
Think
Worse
High
Would
Kinds
Seeing
Know
Understand
Overnight
Very
Gets
Often
Africa
Want
Happen
Who
Even
Things
We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution.
Kofi Annan
Change
Moving Forward
People
Seriously
Evidence
Those
Preventing
Supporting
Climate
Climate Change
Spreading
Motivation
Referred
Question
Denying
Pollution
Disinformation
Moving
Us
Who
Forward
Carbon
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.
Kofi Annan
Human Being
World
Worth
United Nations
Every
States
Membership
Almost
Almost All
Equal
Principle
Human
Nations
Being
United
Whose
Founded
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan
Women
Equality
More
Development
Countries
Understood
Prerequisite
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
Kofi Annan
Morning
Wake Up
Impact
Could
Leaders
Spoken
Sort
Question
Iraq
Wake
Questions
Up
After
Happens
Region
Bombing
I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
Kofi Annan
Will
Born
Remain
Stubborn
Am
Optimist
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
Kwame Nkrumah
Peace
World
Master
Own
World Peace
State
Destiny
Threat
Factor
Makes
Which
Grip
Serious
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Me
Man
Had
Like
Wrote
Always
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Sad
Parents
First
Become
Bit
Frightened
Children
Really
Moment
There is no reason to continue to fail our girls.
Efua Dorkenoo
Girl
Our
No Reason
Fail
Continue
Reason
A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
Efua Dorkenoo
Change
Together
Own
Stage
Sense
Backgrounds
Visible
More
Purpose
Push
Shared
Highly
Global
Identity
Within
Effectively
Families
Common
Different
Different Backgrounds
Common Sense
Communities
Help
Activists
Bring
I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.
Freddy Adu
Girl
Pretty
Look
Always
Lot
Trying
Play
Playstation
You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
Freddy Adu
You
Win
Anything
Your
Team
Help
Team Win
Play
Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.
Freddy Adu
You
Veteran
Old
Country
Beginning
Other
Else
Everywhere
Prospect
Obviously
Am
Years
Contrary
Any
Any Other Country
Anyone
Anyone Else
Europe
Now
Seasoned
Right
Thinks
Career
When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.
Freddy Adu
You
World
Field
Out
Having
Like
Know
Just
So Much Fun
Different
Much
Fun
Whole
Different World
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
Freddy Adu
Mom
Me
People
Out
Could
Knocking
Always
Were
Balls
Get
Trying
Door
Soccer
Play
I couldn't ask for a better life.
Freddy Adu
Life
Better
Better Life
Ask
I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
Freddy Adu
Took
Everyone
Some
About
Excited
Know
French
Learn
Because
Spot
Been
Huge
Being
After
Might
Younger
Speaks
English
Lessons
Monaco
Vacation
Basically
Need
Numbers
Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.
Freddy Adu
Me
You
Yourself
Own
Everybody
Obviously
Track
Expectations
Your
Right
I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.
Freddy Adu
Me
Leader
Looking
Older
Guys
More
Step
Always
Been
Questions
Up
Experienced
Asking
Youngest
Team
Older Guys
Now
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