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(iii) Because it becomes easier to get on in life if people glow with fervour over everything imperial and settle down calmly in subservience to the will of the ruler, there grows a class of people with dual personalities, who are put in places of authority to lead others. Thus colonialism killing the true spirit of leadership among the governed.
(iv) It kills individual personality by denying individual responsibility.
(v) Under it order is imposed from above, not supported from below.
(vii) It curtails freedom of action of the inhabitants of the colonial territory.
3 AWAY WITH COLONIALISM
The Progressive Party is determined to do away with Colonialism and substitute freedom for subservience: democracy for authoritarian rule. We want to see power where it should be, in the hands of the people of the country and not in foreign hands. This is the pledge to which every Ugandian must bind himself. The Progressive Party offers leadership.
4. DEMOCRACY
This is I he government of the state by the majority of the people as opposed to its government by one man or by a few people. "Our constitution," said Pericles, "is called a democracy because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many."
It has come about in history not by a gradual expansion of power, but by a direct replacement of the obsolute power that happens to be on top. Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as "the government of the people by the people for the people."
In order for democracy to work it must be aided by certain forces one of which is Party. In a democracy a Party represents the will of the community. Such is the government the the Progressive Party wish to give to our country, a government that will give scope for the growth of individual personality through individual responsibility; which will provide people with opportunities of choosing between right and wrong for themselves ; a government in which order rests securely on the consent of the many, not precariously on the authority of a few. Such order can only be supported from below, not imposed from above.
