Top 15 Mia Mottley Quotes

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.

Are we really going to leave Scotland without the commitment to ambition that is sorely needed to save lives and to save our planet? Or are we so blinded and hardened that we can no longer appreciate the cries of humanity?

Our people are watching, and our people are taking note,

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

And if we don't, we will allow the path of greed and selfishness to sow the seeds of our common destruction,

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

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

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.

the world must claim ground, secure it and move forward. “We need collective partnerships. We need new voices to inspire and to influence.”

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.

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?

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,

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,

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