#democracy

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward. ↗

— Kerry Washington

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world. ↗

— Rick Yune

#country #democracy #free #free world #hill

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#become #chinese #come #democracy #eventually

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. ↗

— Danny Glover

#always #been #concept #country #day

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#enough #express #free #given #gratitude

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cannot #democracy #life #live #organization

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#democracy #everyday #everyday life #life #means