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THE RIGHT TO
DISSENT
"...democracy does not only mean having general
elections once in four or five years or having roads, bridges, schools and the
creation of an echelon of rich people as a result of rampant political
patronage. A society has to have the right to dissent even after the
ballot is cast..... Let us hope that Malaysians will rise to the occasion lest
it would be fittingly said later that each people get the government they
deserve. Freedom will not ascend to people. People must ascend to
freedom."
Dr. Rais Yatim Malaysia's de
facto Minister of Law
(1995) |
