Kim Dae Jung Quotes

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

Democracy is a universal value

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

Democracy is good for everybody.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Real equality is the soul of the state in a democracy