Dag hammarskjold quotes from markings

Dag Hammarskjöld (29 July1905 – 18 September1961) was a Swedish diplomat, the second United NationsSecretary-General, and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

He oversaw U.N. responses to Cold War crises, the decolonization of Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was killed in a plane crash while attempting to mediate the Congo Crisis.

Dag hammarskjold quotes from markings

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• Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear.

  To build a world of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so?... Only in true surrender to the interest of all can we reach that strength and independence, that unity of purpose, that equity of judgment which are necessary if we are to measure up to our duty to the future, as men of a generation to whom the chance was given to build in time a world of pe