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For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.

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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

V. Thomas (2009)

They build their democratic institutions with pedantic conscientiousness.

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

February 21, 1986: Quoted in: Roberta Seret (2011)

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