You deserve democracy and the rule of law.
"We deserve democracy, and that's why we're here.
We Egyptians don't deserve a constitution, don't deserve freedom, don't deserve democracy.
"As human beings we deserve democracy, human rights, rule of law.
Many millions opposed the Iraq war despite feeling that Saddam Hussein was a genocidal dictator and that Iraq deserved democracy.
And, by God, if those Afghans can't work out how to build a modern, thrusting, parliamentary system after all that then, frankly, they don't deserve democracy.
The young United States failed to support the next case in the Americas, that of Haiti 1791-18044), at least in part because a majority of white Americans did not believe black people deserved democracy.
"Can you really tell the Chadian people, 'O.K., guys, you are very nice and you probably deserve democracy but please wait until we solve the Darfur conflict?' " Mr. Tubiana said.
"We're all suffering from Orientalism, not to say racism, if the sight of an entire people throwing off the yoke of tyranny and courageously demanding free elections fills us with fear rather than uplifting us, just because they're Arabs.... Doesn't Egypt deserve democracy, too?" The editorial pages, meanwhile, represented a wide range of views.
All Americans deserve democracy and self-determination.
