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Our children have to be educated in the values of equality, freedom of choice and democracy,


Ehud Barak

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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
JOHN ADAMS At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all p...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campa...
DICK GEPHARDT We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
MARC MARON Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The very success of the internet itself is due to its openness, equality of opportunity and innovati...
ARZAK KHAN It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, a...
HU JINTAO While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Ba...
PAT BUCHANAN Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War,...
PAT BUCHANAN Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
JOHN STEINBECK Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.
MARTY RUBIN It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent...
THOMAS MANN Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality ...
JOSS WHEDON Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: wh...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: wh...
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE Ultimately, our goal is for children and adults to understand that all of us have something meaningf...
DAVE ANDERSON We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values o...
MAHMOUD ABBAS In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks...
CAROL BELLAMY We must learn to think again. America floats on a sea of misguided philosophies, all competing for e...
KARLA PERRY The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the...
BERNARD BARUCH The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the...
BERNARD M. BARUCH I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of tru...
JOSEPHINE BAKER Ehren wir die Freiheit. Arbeiten wir für den Frieden. Halten wir uns an das Recht. Dienen wir unser...
RICHARD VON WEIZSäCKER Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world be...
VACLAV KLAUS Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress ...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY India is a country that shares the values of freedom, democracy, basic human rights and the rule of ...
SHINZO ABE There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certa...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the mo...
JOHN STEINBECK But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on...
CAITLIN MORAN China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through t...
PATRICK MENDIS Their example is an inspiration to all who share the universal values of freedom, democracy and the ...
A. BUSH The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection ...
TARJA HALONEN Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the v...
CHARLES B. RANGEL The love of democracy is that of equality.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in th...
CORAZON AQUINO Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects...
ARISTOTLE Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
JOHN DRYDEN The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be...
SCOTT HOWARD PHILLIPS "To live the life of our choice" may be the dream of many but the real selection and actualisation o...
ANUJ SOMANY If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.
AULIQ ICE You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the ...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and ...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع...
نزار قباني Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression
DICK FEAGLER You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH The conviction that ideas which threaten our freedom, our democracy and our families can never be al...
GUY VERHOFSTADT Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you do...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is...
TAMMY BALDWIN The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no be...
ELIZABETH COLEMAN Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE Freedom of inquiry and of expression are what universities are all about, and freedom of speech is a...
DAVID MCCLAIN A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.
LEENA AHMAD ALMASHAT If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of li...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is th...
ERIC HOFFER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I invite our friends and allies to work together for the commitment of democracy, freedom and peace.
JOSE AZNAR We're interested in trying to protect certain key natural values in the landscape and make sure that...
DOUG HALL Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.
DASHANNE STOKES One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the d...
GARRY KASPAROV May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for ...
COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU For the sake of our offsprings, we will keep fighting for the Democracy, Freedom and Justice, as lon...
KAZERONNIE MAK Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am certain that many things will change in the life of man. Rituals and customs will change, inclu...
KARMAK BAGISBAYEV Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves
ERNEST DIMNET Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
ERNEST DIMNET Choose your words before talking
SOTONYE ANGA With his passing, we have lost an entire generation who left Australia to defend our nation, the Bri...
ANNE KELLY We don't have ETA claiming these attacks but (they) bear its signatures... ETA is aiming at disrupti...
ANA PALACIO I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom ...
ROXANE GAY Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE One can argue whether democracy has always committed to and resulted in safeguarding liberty and equ...
JONATHAN CHEN Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a book to everyone who values and benefits from e...
REBECCA SOLNIT Let this great Freedom Tower show the world that what our enemies sought to destroy -- our democracy...
GEORGE PATAKI Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement a...
CHARLES KENNEDY Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po...
CHUCK HAGEL We must hold our lawmakers accountable and our courts responsible, or democracy and freedom of speec...
FRANK SERPICO I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are bei...
SHINZO ABE It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens tha...
BILL NYE True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do an...
JOHN PAUL II Together, we can bring faith in the life of many children whose only mistake was to be deaf;
Bri...
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