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What everyone should know is this: it is the Kurds who defend democracy.

— Salih Muslim

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Drawing and dying for borders is a European illness from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

We consider anyone who does not publicly take a stand against the Turkish position to be one of Turkey's henchmen.

The leadership blocked this new plot through agreements and warnings, particularly about the risk of 'new Gazas' and the need for caution in Rojava.

Öcalan resurrected a dead people. The people were dying, about to be finished, but Mr. Öcalan didn't allow that; he pulled the Kurd out of the wolf's mouth.

The agreement [between the DAANES and the Syrian transitional government] is a beginning. The people must remain vigilant.

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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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