Kenneth Kaunda Quotes

It's important to remember that a dictator will not freely relinquish power after having hijacked the constitution and ruled with threats and promises. Sometimes it is necessary to put enough pressure on him that he leaves.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country

In the majority of African countries, the electoral bodies have been the personal choice of the imperial president….these bodies are not strong enough to withstand executive pressure to manipulate the results.

Outsiders can do little in Zimbabwe so long as Robert Mugabe remains in power, for Mugabe is prepared to wreck his country in order to preserve his rule over it. The best thing outsiders can do is pressure or bribe him and his immediate circle into leaving.

For decades, Robert Mugabe has thumbed his nose at the world. The long-time dictator has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist, repeatedly insulted foreign dignitaries, ignored regional and international agreements to which he was a signatory, and isolated the country from any legitimate international economic or political engagement.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

This is not Trumpistan.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'