Olof Palme Quotes

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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

Olof Palme

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.

Olof Palme

Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

Olof Palme

Former Prime minister Tage Erlander recently spoke in a radio program about how he visited his senile mother at an hospital outside of Karlstad. And she told him; I'm so happy here, I get good care and everyone is so nice to me, but who is paying for all this? Is it you Tage? And Erlander said; no I'm not paying, it's you mum that's paying. You have paid for this your entire life and you have the right to be taken care of when you get old and infirm, not because of charity, not because you have a thick wallet, but because you are a Swedish citizen!

Olof Palme