Democratic Union (Russian: Демократический Союз) is a Russian liberal party led by a controversial Russian female politician Valeriya Novodvorskaya. The orientation has been radically liberal and pro-reform. The party charter specifies the main goals of the organization (among others) as follows:
- popularization of liberal ideas
- strengthening the rule of law
- supporting liberal reforms
- support and protection of private property
- fighting against occurrence of communism, nazism, fascism, socialism.
Famous quotes containing the words democratic and/or union:
“That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing—the truly democratic thing about it—is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)