Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

Voting rights and free speech are of little value to those with neither the education nor economic clout to make them meaningful.

The government has muffled the voices that best represent the most significant segments of society.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

They don’t hate the West because of any specific policy or action like Israel or Iraq. They just hate because they have been unsuccessful; they feel that they’ve been denied their rightful place in life.

Subordinate classes have usually pushed for democracy, dominant classes nearly always have resisted it.

The role of the inhabitants of the American hemisphere has for centuries been purely passive. Politically they were nonexistent. We are still in a position lower than slavery, and therefore it is more difficult for us to rise to the enjoyment of freedom.

Statistically, a “normal” human being in today’s world is poor, lives in oppressive physical, social, and political conditions, and is ruled by unresponsive and corrupt government.

When the people's voice cannot be heard, that's when we make mistakes.