Three Dag Hammarskjöld quotes - still spot on

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Gabrielle Dean

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Oct 16, 2025, 2:21:58 AMOct 16

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As relevant today as when he said them in the 50s and 60s. Nothing has changed 😔

"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."

"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.”.