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Sven Olof Joachim Palme, né le 30 janvier 1927 à Stockholm et mort assassiné le 28 février 1986 dans la même ville, est un homme d'État socialiste réformiste suédois qui fut de 1968 à sa mort, dirigeant du Parti social-démocrate suédois des travailleurs et à deux reprises ministre d'État . Wikipedia  

✵ 30. janvier 1927 – 28. février 1986
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“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.”

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Source: Nancy I. Lieber, ‎Institute for Democratic Socialism (U.S.) (1982) Eurosocialism and America: political economy for the 1980s. p. 222.

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

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Quoted in: V. Thomas (2009) The God Dilemma: To Believe Or Not to Believe,.

“They build their democratic institutions with pedantic conscientiousness.”

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Palme about the Islamic Republic of Iran. Quoted in Vänstern och tyranniet: det galna kvartsseklet, Per Ahlmark (1995) ISBN 9175662868, page 21.

“Former Prime minister Tage Erlander spoke on radio a year ago about the people's home and about how he visited his senile mother at a residential hospital outside of Karlstad. When he came to visit her she told him; I'm so happy here. Everyone is so nice to me and I get good care and nice food. But who is paying for all this? Is it you Tage? And Erlander said; no I'm not paying, you're paying for this yourself mother. You have paid for this your entire life. You have grown up in this society, you have taken care of the family all these years, you have been a good citizen. 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. This is your society, our society. You have the same right to this as anyone else. That is the welfare state and it is our greatest pride!”

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Olof Palme, August 28, 1985, in debate with the leader of the opposition before 1985 years general election.

“Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.”

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Olof Palme, February 21, 1986: Quoted in: Roberta Seret (2011) World Affairs in Foreign Films: Getting the Global Picture, p. 122.