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

August 29, 2011

Letter to Hon. Prime Minister Thomas

But from Mr. Budhlall’s article, it would appear that he does not consider these admirable traits as qualities which our country sorely needs in its leaders at this time and around which all patriots should rally. Indeed, the article seems to have forgotten that it is all of these worthy qualities of the Political Leader in which the nation believed when it voted the National Democratic Congress into office on a platform of change. And we the people cannot understand what has happened to that change agenda

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