The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
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Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.Gustav Heinemann
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
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Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.
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I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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Therefore, all of us are called upon to realize, with increasing effort, the demands of the Basic Law for extending social democracy.
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Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
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