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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed. Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
Mahatma Gandhi
I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of . . . and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong? Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of . . . and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family. Donna Brazile
I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family.
Donna Brazile
The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here. James Baldwin
The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.
James Baldwin
Things are not getting worse; things have always been this bad. Nothing is more consoling than the long perspective of history. It will perk you up no end to go back and read the works of progressives past. You will learn therein that things back then were also terrible, and what’s more, they were always getting worse. This is most inspiriting. Molly Ivins
Things are not getting worse; things have always been this bad. Nothing is more consoling than the long perspective of history. It will perk you up no end to go back and read the works of progressives past. You will learn therein that things back then were also terrible, and what’s more, they were always getting worse. This is most inspiriting.
Molly Ivins
One of the chief virtues of a democracy . . . is that its defects are always visible. Harry S. Truman
One of the chief virtues of a democracy . . . is that its defects are always visible.
Harry S. Truman
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order. Ilka Chase
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.
Ilka Chase
I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy. Jane Fonda
I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.
Jane Fonda
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State, “What does it matter to me?” the State may be given up for lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State, “What does it matter to me?” the State may be given up for lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The adventure in popular government has gone on in this country for 150 years. And . . . it is still the greatest adventure in the world today. And still worth one’s faith, and one’s courage, and one’s perspicacity. Dorothy Thompson
The adventure in popular government has gone on in this country for 150 years. And . . . it is still the greatest adventure in the world today. And still worth one’s faith, and one’s courage, and one’s perspicacity.
Dorothy Thompson
We owe ourselves, and the United States that we will pass off to our children, to relearn the tools of reason, logic, clarity, dissent, civility, and debate. . . . Those things are the nonpartisan basis of democracy, and without them you can kiss this thing goodbye. Richard Dreyfuss
We owe ourselves, and the United States that we will pass off to our children, to relearn the tools of reason, logic, clarity, dissent, civility, and debate. . . . Those things are the nonpartisan basis of democracy, and without them you can kiss this thing goodbye.
Richard Dreyfuss
I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based. Vandana Shiva
I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
Vandana Shiva
Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Intellectual and political leadership should be neither elitist nor populist; rather it ought to be democratic, in that each of us stands in public space, without humiliation, to put forward our best visions and views for the sake of the public interest. Cornel West
Intellectual and political leadership should be neither elitist nor populist; rather it ought to be democratic, in that each of us stands in public space, without humiliation, to put forward our best visions and views for the sake of the public interest.
Cornel West
Understand, democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders argued. They quarreled. Eventually they compromised. They expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity — the idea that for all our outward differences, we’re all in this together; that we rise or fall as one. Barack Obama
Understand, democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders argued. They quarreled. Eventually they compromised. They expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity — the idea that for all our outward differences, we’re all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
Barack Obama