The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human social economic political and religious relationship.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Hunger is a political issue and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.