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Pallo Jordan Quotes

b. 1942

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan (born 22 May 1942) is a South African politician. He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and was a cabinet minister from 1994 until 2009.

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Democracy, civil liberties, human rights and social justice are not privileges to be dispensed or withheld at the discretion of power wielders.

No one in the ANC is suggesting that whites should be discriminated against in the resolution of the land question.

The limited, qualified democracy that places power in the hands of a self-selected political elite who presume to have a monopoly on wisdom and an understanding of the national interest, effectively kidnaps politics.

It is not desirable for one president to lead, especially in a young democracy like ours, for such a long time.”

We need fresh minds in the house. Whether you prefer to call that compromise candidates is entirely up to you.

We all agree that a vibrant and vocal opposition is essential to the health of a democracy. What is all too often missed is the quality of that opposition.

Acknowledging the unfinished character of our national democratic revolution is not to detract from the significance of the gains our movement has made. It should rather spur us to press even harder.

The best guarantor of independence, national sovereignty and the capacity to resist the blandishments ... of the super-power is internal democracy that ensures the widest possible participation in government by the ordinary working people.

What that means is that the ANC would not prefer Mbeki to continue as president of the ANC. That is the view of the majority.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pallo Jordan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.