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If we look about us we see the lengthening shadows of a thousand small corruptions creeping across the landscape of our nation. This is monstrous, for it is not the evening of our history; it is the morning and the shadows should be forming the other way.

— Michael Manley

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Democracy should be as much a system of participation as a method of representation.

To understand today’s politics one must always begin with yesterday’s economics.

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Where political sovereignty has been conceded but economic power remains untouched, equality remains a myth, social justice proves unattainable and even freedom becomes an ambiguous phenomenon.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

We believe that the idea of equality is the only enduring principle by which mankind may be guided in the conduct of national and international affairs.

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