„Old war horses like me who have spent decades writing and speaking about such austere topics as the horrors of world hunger, third world debt, the World Bank or the World Trade Organization (WTO), gaze in wonder at this new movement, hopeful that we might have had something to do with it.“ Susan George, Politikwissenschaftlerin, ehemalige Vizepräsidentin von ATTAC Frankreich über das erste Weltsozialforum.