“Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.” SaidMotherDemocracySonInternationalRevengeNewspapersVideoRemarksCapturedBest RevengeBhutto Author:Benazir Bhutto
“I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.” WellsHappensRunningMotherFatherDemocracyMilitaryTrainTroopsSurrogates Author:Alfred M. Gray
“Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.” WorldBelieveMotherDemocracyWorshipIndiaConstitutionElectionOur FamilyVeinsSecularismMother Nature Author:Narendra Modi
“Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.” MenYearsWarTodayMotherFightingPowerfulDemocracyFiguresPoliticianIndiaMalesIndianDefeatedPakistanVery PowerfulAmbiguousSuspendedDominating Author:Aravind Adiga
“What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.” PeopleFacesMotherDemocracyMovementKingsToughLaborIncludingRebellionYour FaceLutherWoodyPopulistAbolitionistLabor MovementPaineChavezShaySuffragists Author:Jim Hightower
“Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.” CountryStatesMotherUnitedResultsPowerfulUnited StatesDemocracyProductsRevolutionTraditionConstitutionInstitutionsDemocraticFavorsReactionsOppositionConstitution Of The United StatesMother Country Author:Lord Acton
“My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much and I am willing to do this again if necessary.” IfsMotherFatherDemocracyWillingMy FamilyDevotedNurturingEquality For All Author:Benigno Aquino III
“I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called "democracy"; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they say "go back to Africa," I say "when you send the Chinese back to China, the Italians back to Italy, etc., and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came, and give the Indians their land back, who really would be here at home?"” PeopleGivingI CanFactsHomeWould BeKidsAmericaMotherFatherBlackRaceDemocracyLandChinaChineseEtcBlack PeopleMother And FatherMayflower Author:Fannie Lou Hamer