"That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world."
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"If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible"
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"The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community."
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"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration."
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"Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate."
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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
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"You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy."
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"May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!"
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"The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression."
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"Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?"
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"Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
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"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."
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"Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void."
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"The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions."
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"We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow."
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"Democracy is a universal value"
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"In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life."
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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."
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"Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom."
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"Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy."
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