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… not toward repression, as country after country has brought into being the institutions of democracy. The defense of human rights is a humanitarian concern, and a practical one as well. …
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… are on opposite sides of the globe, we share a common bond in the great institution of democracy. Sri Lanka, Mr. President, has a remarkable record among nations which won their … and ethnic groups, we Americans know from experience that there is room for all in a democracy. Dividing your country into separate nations, as some would have you do, is not the … also, Mr. President, just quoted. I pleaded that we should restore to Japan the freedoms of democracy. Those were the ideals which inspired us then and inspire us now. Our history and …
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… celebrate those who, in each generation, have protected those ideals and advanced the cause of democracy. I'm trying to smile, but if I appear as if I'm frowning a little bit, it's those TV … up there -- [laughter] -- so I'm not really frowning at all; I'm squinting. But the cause of democracy, that's a subject of high seriousness when, on a night like this, it's hard to be … around certain things: our central belief that all men are created equal and our belief that democracy is the fairest and most honorable political system yet devised by man. And they seemed …
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… continue this effort, and to stand in solidarity with those who resist, until the blessings of democracy, freedom, and respect for human dignity are assured throughout the world. NOW, …
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… of recent developments in the Soviet Union as they relate to respect for human rights. Democracy and the Russian Revolution Let me begin by asking what is it that makes us, both as a … movement united in the Third International ,·. ;_sits complete rejection of the concepts of democracy as they had developed in Western civilization in the wake of the Enlightenment. The fact that Western notions of democracy were neither-foreign to Russia nor lacked popular support in that country was borne out …
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… General Namphy's efforts to build democratic institutions and achieve the goal of a working democracy over the next 15 months. In connection with General Namphy's visit, the U.S. and …
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… S. Commerce / ~ JM Wllt eruAr,t: to Vtc.W::: ~~ uv, ~ Y½\M- • 'l . rl' National Endowment for Democracy- - Washington, D. C. , Director > *The Hand Foundation - Chattanooga, Tennessee, … Member Previous Associations Green Acres of America, Chattanooga, Tennessee, part owner Democracy Program, Washington, D. C. , Chairman Trilateral Commission, New York, Member American … University, L~xin_gton, Virginia\ B. S. Commerce f ~ b'-J ~ . ~~ -~ hr *National Endowment for Democracy - Washington, D. C., Director / *The Hand Foundation - Chattanooga, Tennessee, Director …
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… traditional values of family, work, and neighborhood while serving as the bulwark of American democracy and lending support to the fundamental tenets of our free enterprise system. As …
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… 1918, to assert their country's independence and commitment to a government based on justice, democracy, and the rights of the individual. Twenty-two years later Soviet tyranny imposed itself …
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