"Different religions, belief systems and cultural backgrounds are essential to the richness of the human experience."
- Ban Ki-moon (2006 -     )

"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
- Kofi Annan (1997-2006)

"Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi-party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy."
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996)

"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."
- U Thant (1961-1971)

"Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace."
- Dag Hammarskjold (1953-1961)