Goran Persson Quotes
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
Persson, Göran. "Speech by Prime Minister Göran Persson at the Memorial Ceremony in Stockholm City Hall." Government Offices of Sweden, 1 Jan. 2005.
There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.