U Thant Quotes

Birth Date: 1909-01-22 (Friday, January 22nd, 1909)
Date of Death: 1974-11-25 (Monday, November 25th, 1974)

U Thant life timeline
The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as its 3rd UN Secretary-General. Friday, November 30th, 1962
Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. Friday, February 26th, 1971
The United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General. Tuesday, December 21st, 1971
Quotes

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
When asked why he showed no emotion when informed of his sons death Thant replied 'I believe that I have attained a greater degree of emotional equilibrium than most people'
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