"It is up to us to be the first society to eradicate poverty and bring justice and equality to the most disenfranchised people on earth. Our children have the right to equal opportunities; to thrive, to be happy, healthy, and safe."
Shakira
Singer & SDG Advocate
"We are running out of time and it now incumbent upon all of us, all of you, activists, young and old, to please get involved. Because the environment and the fight for the world’s poor are inherently linked. The planet can no longer wait, the underprivileged can no longer be ignored."
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor & UN Messenger of Peace
"Promise us that you will keep your commitments and invest in our future. Promise that every child will have the right to safe, free and quality primary and secondary education."
Malala Yousafzai
Activist & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts."
Desmond Tutu
Activist & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"The SDGs set out 17 goals to create a world without poverty, which allows all boys and girls a decent education, and preserves our planet for future generations...These goals are for everyone, everywhere."
Zhou Xun
Actress & UNDP Goodwill Ambassador
"We cannot permit ourselves to postpone 'certain agendas' for the future. The future demands of us critical and global decisions in the face of world-wide conflicts which increase the number of the excluded and those in need."
His Holiness, Pope Francis
Pope of the Catholic Church
"We have an urgent mission to complete by 2030 and I really need your help. We need to fight global inequality, end extreme poverty, and respect our planet."
Emma Watson
Actress & UN Women Goodwill Ambassador
"We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet."
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
"Until there is peace between humans and the environment, there cannot be world peace. It is impossible. When you run out of food and water, the wars begin again."
Jane Goodall
Primatologist &, UN Messenger of Peace
"Although we all share the same planet, not everyone can change the world in the same way and few individuals can change it by themselves."
Jet Li
Martial Artist Actor & WHO Goodwill Ambassador
"Around the world, success in achieving the SDGs will ease global anxieties, provide a better life for women and men and build a firm foundation for stability and peace in all societies, everywhere."
Amina Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
"Areas of poverty and extreme poverty, I learned, are not a natural state. It is man-made and solvable."
Hugh Jackman
Actor & Activist
"Our collective commitment to the 17 Global Goals is our most important defense in ensuring that the benefits of our modernizing world are shared among all nations and people and not just by the privileged few."
Forest Whitaker
Actor & SDG Advocate
"If you haven’t heard of the Global Goals yet, you will soon….why should you care? Because the last time the world did something like this, it saved millions of lives."
Bill Gates
Co-Founder, Microsoft Corporation
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