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Democracy building will be almost impossible without good journalism.

— Dapo Olorunyomi

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"Journalists should seek truth and report. Be accountable to readers and dedicated to public discourse."

"There's no democracy when there is no citizenry."

One of the key roles is the institutions that promote accountability, because indeed, when you can't ensure accountability, then that means democracy itself is endangered.

Without CPJ, I believe I would be dead or in prison.

"As the saying goes, yesterday is a story gone, tomorrow can still be written in gold."

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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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