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Democide is a government’s murder of people for any reason or no reason at all. Genocide is the murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or language.

— Rudolph Rummel The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

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The more democratic freedom a people have, the less severe their internal political violence.

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The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking Power, i.e., through fostering democratic freedom.

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Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Where people are free, political violence is minimal.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings.

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