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The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.