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Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in that, if terror reigned everywhere in the world, but the colonizer enjoys, in the mother country, democratic rights that the colonialist system refuses to the colonized native. In fact, the colonialist system favors population growth to reduce the cost of labor, and it forbids assimilation of the natives, whose numerical superiority, if they had voting rights, would shatter the system. Colonialism denies human rights to human beings whom it has subdued by violence, and keeps them by force in a state of misery and ignorance that Marx would rightly call a subhuman condition. Racism is ingrained in actions, institutions, and in the nature of the colonialist methods of production and exchange. Political and social regulations reinforce one another. Since the native is subhuman, the Declaration of Human Rights does not apply to him; inversely, since he has no rights, he is abandoned without protection to inhuman forces - brought in with the colonialist praxis, engendered every moment by the colonialist apparatus, and sustained by relations of production that define two sorts of individuals - one for whom privilege and humanity are one, who becomes a human being through exercising his rights; and the other, for whom a denial of rights sanctions misery, chronic hunger, ignorance, or, in general, 'subhumanity. ↗


— Albert Memmi


#colonialism #colonies #democracy #europeans #human-rights

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq. ↗


— John Bolton


#democracy #favour #i #i am #iraq

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. ↗


— Dalai Lama


#backward #cannot #china #democracy #freedom

I want people to learn what democracy means. ↗


— Jack Ma


#i #learn #means #people #want

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. ↗


— Ernest Mandel


#countries #democracy #industrial #limited #luxury

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy. ↗


— Rick Mercer


#admission #always #been #canada #complain

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. ↗


— Iskander Mirza


#hypocrisy #limitation #without

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗


— Taslima Nasrin


#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗


— Sandra Day O'Connor


#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that. ↗


— Ron Davies


#assure #behalf #democracy #draconian #else






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