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Democracy Quotes

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Education People Democracy Rules Bow

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

Power Democracy Perfect Country Nice

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

Good Democracy Financial End Wall

Democracy passes into despotism.

Government Democracy Despotism Passes

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

Blase J. Cupich

Democracy Deserve Because Get Them

We are a democracy: there are enough checks and balances in our country, and we have an impeccable record of not contributing in any way to nuclear proliferation.

Democracy Enough Country Way Checks

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Work Broken Democracy Place Over

To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.

Home People Me Research Democracy

If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.

Carmen Yulin Cruz

Me Democracy Go Say President See

I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.

Simon Winchester

Democracy Think Enjoy True Never

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI

Democracy Society Church Standards

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy Exercise Who Those Belongs

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Culture Democracy Free Speech Born

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Time Value Democracy Now Principles

Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law.

Dianne Feinstein

Soul Law Democracy Country Against

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

History Democracy Important Vote

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Life Time Law Democracy Political

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

Freedom Respect Time War Democracy

Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election.

Democracy You Election New Because

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

Education People Democracy Ability

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

Democracy Along Must Ethiopia

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.

Joe Kennedy III

Democracy Compromise Dirty Fact Word

I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

Heart Democracy Think American Idea

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Democracy World Socialism Way Within

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