"Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the……" — Nawal El Saadawi

Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of… - Nawal El Saadawi

"Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned."

— Nawal El Saadawi

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