Asma Jahangir Quotes

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.

I cast my vote for Independence

There are some people who believe that some people are not yet ready for democracy … everybody in the world is ready for liberty. It is a question of how you do it.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

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

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.