Mia Mottley Quotes

“If I use the speech prepared for me to deliver today, it would be a repetition– s repetition of what you’ve heard from others, and also from me”.

“If we can find the will to send people to the moon and solve male baldness, we can solve simple problems like letting our people eat”.

Our people humanized the violent, inhumane slave plantation society that the British colonialists had established, (but) we are still faced with the insidious nature of a culture that is intended to dehumanize black people wherever black or blackness is found, and our parliaments therefore, while we shall be in the vanguard of removing all laws of discrimination, it is the mental emancipation that shall forever always matter.

Our world stands at a fork in the road; one no less significant than when the United Nations was formed in 1945. But then the majority of countries here did not exist, we exist now. The difference is we want to exist a 100 years from now,

If it matters enough, we can choose to end climate change. Our only limits are the limits to our imagination. We achieve what we put our resources behind.

We are waiting for urgent global, moral, strategic leadership," said Ms. Mottley. "If we don't control this fire, it will burn us all down.

We know how to run fast in one set of circumstances when it suits one set of people but yet we run very slow when it matters to billions of people and their access to livelihood,

Let us choose to end climate change. We will achieve it. Human ingenuity will enable us to do so. But we cannot wait. Let us bring it forward.

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision is merely passing time. But vision with action can change the world.

I want to salute the King for having the courage to recognise this is a conversation that the time has come to have,

The world needs us to rise up and change our behaviour.

The world needs to share the burden,

But we who are invisible do not have the luxury of time because we are busy trying to survive,

What will it take for us to get the mighty of the world to protect us against the existential threat to our survival?

An international order that is not inclusive, or strongly rooted in fairness and moral legitimacy will fail to halt and reverse climate change,