Extracts from Gordon Brown's speech to Labour Party Conference 2008
24 September 2008
Extracts from Gordon Brown's speech to Labour Party Conference 2008 related to International Development & Malaria.
........The whole lesson of the new world I described earlier is that we must work together to meet the great shared challenges vital to our future......
.......And I tell you that what we do together for the poor and vulnerable is an act of compassion, but it is more than that.
It is what will determine whether this new global society succeeds or fails.......
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And this week at Britain's request the United Nations has summoned the leaders of the world to a special summit on what we know is a global poverty emergency.
You know, in the museum in Rwanda which commemorates the millions who lost their lives as the world looked the other way, there is a picture of a young boy called David - a ten year old who was tortured to death.
His last words were "don't worry - the United Nations will come for us".
But we never did.
That child believed the best of us only to discover that the pieties repeated so often meant in reality nothing at all.
The words "never again" became just a slogan and not what it should be - the crucible in which are values are tested.
I tell you, this Labour government will not allow the world to stand by as more than 20,000 children die today from diseases we know how to cure........
........So the poor will not go unheard tomorrow at the United Nations, because we the British people will speak up for them and for justice.....
