Corazon Aquino Quotes
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino, President, The Philippines, The Aquino administration: record and legacy (1986-1992)
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With so many revolutionary rulers of new nations suppressing all opposition, the history of Ataturk and Turkey is unique. Ataturk was so popular and his People’s Party so successful that there was no opposition and Turkey had one party rule. However, Ataturk was determined to have Turkey become a parliamentary democracy as good as the Western nations of Europe. So a tradition of multi-party democracy was needed. So Ataturk actually went to his friend Fethi Okyar and asked him to start an opposition party and oppose the government. Fethi was a strong supporter of the revolution and generally was in concurrence with Ataturk and the People’s Party on everything. Ataturk however convinced him that they had to start a tradition that would take Turkey through the future, and he did create a new party-- Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party) and worked hard to find differences with the People’s Party and the Government. One immediate contribution was the oversight that the new party provided—a strong tradition that exists to this day in Turkey.
Graham was a very strong advocate for democracies. However, many politicians advocated staying out of that struggle. They pointed out that Graham was very inconsistent. He opposed the U. S. taking sides in most of the other struggles between democracies and dictatorships such as in Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the dictatorships of Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe, and Burma among others. Graham was a strong anti-Russian and supported countries who were against Russia or with whom Russia was at odds.
Written when only a teenager.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, popularly known as Cory Aquino, was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, the first woman to hold that office. Corazon Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the 20-year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic.
