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Monitoring elections. I mean the entire process of democracy and where we are today as a people and a nation.

— Mercy Abang

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We need men to look at what women can offer and to hand them the baton to thrive.

She condemned police and military “brutality” across the country, and a “generalised system of impunity.

I take a deep breath and think outside the box.

Tweeting for me is a hobby and not what I do my whole life. I’ve had people ask me if I have a day job and if I go.

I think it was while I practised as a field reporter on television; I went for an assignment and I needed the speech.

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

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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