#racy

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#allowed #being #candidate #democracy #dislike

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#government #iraq #puppet #setting #states

I want people to learn what democracy means. ↗

— Jack Ma

#i #learn #means #people #want

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#before #class #confined #educated #goal

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#countries #democracy #industrial #limited #luxury

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#american #democracy #glory #important #new

This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#also #basis #character #democracy #during

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#democracy #independently #thinking #together