Thomas Sankara Quotes

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

It is difficult for the strongest advocate of national rights to assert that the people in actual occupation or political control over a given area of the earth are entitled to do what they will with "their own," entirely disregarding the direct and indirect consequences of their actions upon the rest of the world.

We must face the fact that the United Nations is not yet the international equivalent of our own legal system and the rule of law.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

Preserve U. S. sovereignty and freedom of action by marginalizing the United Nations.

When America rejected the League, she had deliberately chosen to rest solely upon treaties with the sanction of public opinion alone…

The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what America is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

Don’t be shameless, Mr Blair. Don’t be immoral, Mr. Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticize anyone about the rules of the international community. You are an imperialist pawn who attempts to curry favor with Danger Bush-Hitler, the number one mass murderer and assassin there is on the planet. Go straight to hell, Mr. Blair.

The UN system is not very democratic, everyone knows that the Security Council is not democratic.

No country can decide for another county.

India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.