Winnie Byanyima Quotes

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Islam has been used in some countries, for instance Sudan, as a means for suppression and the installation of autocratic regimes. This, coupled with the censorship of moderate Muslim voices and increasing state patronage of religious scholars, has led to the propagation of a dogmatic form of divisive Islamic extremism, a form that rejects democracy, human rights, and good governance as devices of Western imperialism.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

We don't do the poor any favors by respecting the sensitivities of bad rulers who oppress their own people.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

We will bring imperialism to its knees.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

Where is the democracy that British gave us? Ayub Khan robbed us of it. And what did he give us in return ? He gave us his own version of democracy which does not even deserve the name of democracy.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

A free Cuba, working for the well-being of the people, was the aim of many of the men who supported Castro, but when it became evident that one tyranny was being supplanted by another some of them began to feel again the urge for the real freedom they had hoped for and fought for. Whereupon, they deserted.

Colombians! I will not speak to you of freedom, because if I keep my promises, you will be more than free. You will be respected…. Besides in a dictatorship who can speak of freedom.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.

Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

Forcing some countries to accept democracy is something that should not be done.

Dictators don't come from elections.

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.