“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
James Russell Lowell
“Woman should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.”
Jennifer Aniston
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Abraham Lincoln
“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing”
Anatole France
“The arrests and harassment of pro-democracy activists violate their fundamental civil rights. The United States calls on the Government of Nepal to release these and other detained activists who have been held for voicing their opposition to autocratic rule in Nepal.”
Sean McCormack
“Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed”
Thomas Jefferson
