James Cleverly Quotes

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

Democratic expression has been hijacked by ethnic discriminatory expression

One of the problems is that there are people in the shadows. There are people afraid of their own government

Just because Nelson has been released doesn't mean the government has done us any favors. We have nothing to be grateful for. The government destroyed our country, destroyed our people. If anybody needs amnesty, it is the government.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took so many years - 16 years of the ruling party's rule of this country.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

If there is one thing that unites all Palestinian people today is their resentment of corruption.

What is it in our society that encourages us to periodically to turn on each other? What is it in our society that leads us to the cycle of violence.

Human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it … that alone determines revolutionary mental forms

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Disenfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

Underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need for ending intolerable conditions and institutions.

Not a single Arab ruler is a willing participant in democratic reform. Their regimes are festooned with opportunists attached to their financial and political privileges.

Apartheid is often misunderstood. It could just as easily be understood a policy of good neighborliness.