Angie Elisabeth Brooks
Angie Elizabeth Brooks (August 24, 1928 – September 9, 2007) was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly.Brooks was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N. body.
Quotes
[edit]- If much remains to be done, new avenues to be explored, new attitudes and ideas to be found, we have given the direction to future assemblies.
- Angie Brooks: Pioneer Liberian Woman,Sept 25, 2007,By Dr. D. Elwood Dunn
- The U.N. could and should remain the best means of international cooperation that has ever been at mankind's disposal.
- But we have to nurse and cherish and cultivate it.
- Everybody's Miss Brooks, Sep. 26, 1969,ADD TIME NEWS
