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We have helped sustain democracy not just in Nigeria but across the African continent in nations like Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Ghana and the Gambia.

— Omoyele Sowore

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You cannot force people to participate in a system they no longer believe in.

When you cannot physically run anymore, you can use the brain to keep going and that is what activism is all about.

What it means is that very soon, digital currency will flood the world and your central bank will become archaic.

I can run Nigeria better than President Buhari – even in my sleep.

“It does not matter whether such abuse is carried out by Islamists, traditionalists, or anyone else.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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