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I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

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