We the People - Grenada

Keeping an eye on the people's business

“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
Lotte Scharfman
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
Louis Brandeis
“I wish I could shut up. But I can’t and I won’t.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
Benjamin Franklyn
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward Murrow
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
“When a government loses integrity, times are dangerous. When the populace accepts the loss, times are desperate.”
Pam Brown
“Every country gets the government it deserves.”
Joseph de Maistr
“Free and fair elections can give us a government of the people; but only an active, informed and vigilant citizen can give us a government by the people for the people.”
H. Kwasi Prempeh

September 1, 2007

Response to Dr Marrsyhow re Open Letter to Sandra Ferguson

Your response, Dr. Marryshow, is neither surprising nor unexpected. It would seem that our sentiments co-incided. I had read a number of your columns pertaining to the re-sentencing of the Grenada 13 and I too had thought of letting sleeping dogs lie but the column, The Big Set Up was “an affront to my own consciousness”. It was cheap, dirty politics coming from one who had already offered himself to be one the people’s representatives in the Parliament….

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