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“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.
— Kofi Annan
UN Secretary-General, Nobel Peace laureate
As quoted in Simply Living: The Spirit of the Indigenous People (1999) edited by Shirley A. Jones
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