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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

 

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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

 

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Citizenship is what makes a republic -- monarchies can get along without it.

 

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

 

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It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

 

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Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

 

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To safeguard democracy the

 

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The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

 

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In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.

 

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

 

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

 

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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

 

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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

 

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organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.

 

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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.



Paulo Freire:

 

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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

 

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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

 

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Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

 

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The death of democracy is not likely

 

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Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.