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"For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power."
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"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
"One who rules is ruled."
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"When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights."
"Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it."
"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."
"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
"The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations."
"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."
"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."
"In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world."
"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability."
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