Quote

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.