{"id":4998,"date":"2023-11-15T14:50:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/top-20-kumi-naidoo-quotes-that-will-inspire-you-to-stand-for-what-is-right\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:50:28","slug":"top-20-kumi-naidoo-quotes-that-will-inspire-you-to-stand-for-what-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/top-20-kumi-naidoo-quotes-that-will-inspire-you-to-stand-for-what-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Kumi Naidoo Quotes That Will Inspire You To Stand For What Is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Kumi Naidoo is a South African, he is a human rights and environmental activist. He started as a child activist who fought apartheid in South Africa. He is also a co-founder of the Helping Hands Youth Organisation.<br \/>He also became the first African Head of Greenpeace which is an international environmental group.<br \/>Kumi is an inspiration to Africans to stand up for their right and for everything good. Here are some of his quotes that will inspire you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#7d0101;font-size:26px\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong>Inspiring Kumi Naidoo Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cThere is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person\u2019s terrorist is another person\u2019s freedom fighter.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-under_first_paragraph\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22500%22%20height=%22700%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"\" class=\"ezlazyload wp-image-8736\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0005.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color:#a0780c;font-size:22px\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>\u201cNelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he\u2019s made mistakes.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-under_second_paragraph\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: \u201cIf by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I\u2019m a saint.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStruggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, \u2018enough is enough and no more.&#8217;\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8737\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22500%22%20height=%22700%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"ezlazyload wp-image-8737\" alt=\"\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0006.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#ab7e03;font-size:22px\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison\u2019s book reminds all organizations \u2013 governments, business and civil society \u2013 to focus on the legitimacy of their own actions.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for those who are destroying our future and this planet. We need fast, profound and systemic change. History only moves forward when courageous people get up and act. That\u2019s why I support this citizens\u2019 initiative to recognise ecocide as the crime it is.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNelson Mandela once said \u201cI can\u2019t help it if the ladies take note of me; I\u2019m not going to protest.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-longest_content\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0007.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8738\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22500%22%20height=%22700%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"ezlazyload wp-image-8738\" alt=\"\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0007.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-mid_content\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#946d02;font-size:22px\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>\u201cThe reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman\u2019s right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that\u2019s a rare thing.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say \u2018we want to add our voice.&#8217;\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8740\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20width=%22500%22%20height=%22700%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"ezlazyload wp-image-8740\" alt=\"\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_700\/https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200627_153934_0008.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of major economies must be bolder than they were today in providing a vision for 100% renewable energy for all.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#946e04;font-size:22px\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>\u201cMandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.\u201d \u2014 Kumi Naidoo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumi Naidoo is a South African, he is a human rights and environmental activist. 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