Democratic Rights Quotes

“You are dictatorial.” My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of us all.

The United States ought to be able to choose for its president anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves and their children.

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

We don't duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

We need to get a stable Afghanistan that can ensure the security of Americans, Europeans, and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally our own democratic rights and institutions.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.

No nation is ever ready for independence. How many Western states, including the United States of America, were ready for independence.

Islam calls for democracy and grants people the right to choose their governor.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism –-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whatever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. The same thing is not true of Germany