Goh Chok Tong Quotes
If you allow students to do so [demonstrate], then workers will begin to do so over the slightest grievance, and if you have several such demonstrations, right away the impression is created that the government is not in control of the situation—that the place may become unstable, and that will have an impact on foreign investors.
Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore, Quoted in New York Times, July 10, 1995
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Commenting on student demonstrations protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee:
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo silently marched every week asking what had happened to the children—the disappeared—who were kidnapped and murdered in the Argentine Dirty War. The President warned the crowd that their protests might attract the death squads again.
Louis Napoleon had seized control of France and had very little popular support amongst the aristocracy and middle class. However, the Socialists leading the uprisings frightened them more than Louis Napoleon as the Socialists had the support of the peasants who resented the abuses of the aristocracy and many of the middle class. This was true class warfare and not at all what was possible in the United States when American conservatives would claim “class warfare” when there was a move for more progressive taxation. In Europe, class warfare really meant death and destruction, so for many who knew the history, the claim of “class warfare” was frightening and a large part of the “Red Scare” in the United States.
Hirsh had uncovered CIA illegal surveillance of anti Vietnam war protesters in the late 1960s. They broke two sets of laws. First, the CIA had no authority to investigate and track American Citizens anywhere but particularly American citizens. Second, the FBI which did have the authority to investigate Americans, were not allowed to use the methods that the CIA did. They violated not only Federal Law and Rules, but also violated the 4th Amendment Rights of thousands of citizens.
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He was sentenced to life in prison for his advocating Violence if the Uighurs would not be given their independence. They were then the 2nd largest Muslim group in China.
This paraphrased quote originated with Martin Luther King, Jr. See related quote.
A demonstration on Capitol Hill was threatened, protesting the administration's policies with respect to the Bank of the United States. A congressional delegation visited the President and asked his plans to cope with the emergency:
Johnson rued that the Governor and other authorities of Alabama could not block or harass the Civil rights protesters.
In the aftermath of the Tienamen Square massacre of 1989, Congress voted economic sanctions against China:
He had just spent 15 months in Italy and did not admire Italian symphonic abilities. The English Chartists wanted to organize demonstrations and protests but had little experience and know how.
He was arguing that the government should be able to prohibit public demonstrations on the grounds that the protesters are “irresponsible power.” This position has been taken sometimes by the American right, and is common in all totalitarian states.
3rd Viscount Palmerston. France has had, ever since their bloody revolution, factions that were for revolution and factions for stability have both always existed.
Goh Chok Tong is a former Singaporean politician who served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 28 November 1990 to 12 August 2004 and secretary-general of the People's Action Party from November 1992 to December 2004. Prior to his prime ministership, Goh served in the ministerial portfolios for trade and industry, health, and defence under Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He was a Member of Parliament for 44 years, representing Marine Parade SMC for 12 years and Marine Parade GRC for the next 32 years.
