Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives as shown in the following stories.
Likewise education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview the results are horrific.
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and further will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
No one should be left to suffer alone.