"(Yehudi Menuhin was) a citizen of the world in the fullest sense" — one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and colour....As a member of a people which more than any other had been the victim of this century’s barbarism, he redeemed the century by rising above all resentment and showing what human beings at their best are capable of.
  Kofi Annan. Secretary-General of the United Nations