Political Freedom Quotes

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.