Talks about human rights, equality, liberalism, rights of women, internationalism, nowadays considered as negative words by a lot of people, in Georgia started from the nineteenth century.
“...love of our homeland within us has taken the same sacred direction as the advanced, best part of European democracy is lately heading to. In the past we had a much wider national ground than this; but together with sacred bread Asian weeds and rye were often sown on this ground. That is why we have to return the national ground from the past, while for sowing select sacred bread from the fields of mind, morality and economics developed by Europe”, - Iakob Gogebashvili has stated.