#democracy

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#democracy #fight #forces #general #government

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe. ↗

— James Inhofe

#around #basic #basic rights #continue #democracy

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#democracy #find #great #our #practicing

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#expression #freedom #freedom of expression #functioning #i

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#democracy #ills #more

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

#democracy #fathers #founding #founding fathers #functioning

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#democracy #flexibility #roosevelt #supreme-court #art

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können. ↗

— Joachim Gauck

#civil-rights #courage #democracy #dictatorship #empowerment

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#appreciate #beliefs #democracy #felt #got