Mia Mottley Quotes

We do not want that dreaded death sentence, and we have come here today to say, 'Try harder,'

Just as we find it abhorrent today to contemplate, far less support, removing freedom and choice from other human beings, so must we also recognize that true freedom also requires changing the structural imbalances in power and wealth,

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

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,

Alongside new capital, innovative instruments, partnerships and new ways of working together are critical if we are to overcome the challenges posed by climate, pandemics and debt. These new, integrated, initiatives announced today are embodiment of what can come out of new cooperative ways of working together.

We are trespassing on ground that is best left in our history and not our future. And to this, we add the insidious threats of terrorism and, now, the existential threat of climate change,

Trust and inclusion are indivisible… We need a New Internationalism, a truly inclusive United Nations and international system.

We are committed to resume the battle of saving people and the planet,

If our existence is to mean anything, then we must act in the interest of all of our people who are dependent on us,

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

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

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.

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,

Because it is the right thing to do - not just politically but morally,

The world needs to share the burden,