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Chinua Achebe

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

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Donna Grant

"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

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Donna Grant

"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."

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Donna Grant

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

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Donna Grant

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

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Donna Grant

"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

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Donna Grant

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

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Chinua Achebe
"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."

Consequence

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Chinua Achebe
"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

Democracy

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Chinua Achebe
"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

People

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Chinua Achebe
"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

Habit

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Chinua Achebe
"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."

People

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Chinua Achebe
"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."

People

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Chinua Achebe
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."

Man

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Chinua Achebe
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

Acceptance

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Chinua Achebe
"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

Creativity

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Chinua Achebe
"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Experience

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