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"Democracy cannot simply be imported; it must emerge from the historical experience of a people."

— Fabien Eboussi

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"Freedom begins when people recover the power to define themselves."

"The future of Africa depends on its capacity for critical self-examination."

"Christianity in Africa cannot remain a mere repetition of European Christianity."

"To think is to refuse submission."

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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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