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India is a huge country but it always listens to us, the smaller countries... I trust democracy far more than any other form of governance.

— Mohamed Nasheed

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One time they said it was terrorism, another time they said it was acting against the constitution, another time they said it was alcohol.

We believe that the only prudent way forward and the solution is for Waheed to resign and the speaker of parliament to take over the government until elections are over.

My message to you is continue the protests, continue despite the odds, and eventually, together, we will reach that crucial number, 350.

For us, climate change is real. We are already relocating people from 16 islands affected by rising seas to other areas of our country [Maldives]

Even the figure of 40 is quite big for a country the size of the Maldives which has a population of just 3,50,000. Even one Maldivian becoming a terrorist and killing people is enough to shake our society.

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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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