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• A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Human Rights

• An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

  Plato

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Injustice

• … the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

  Australian social scientist, quoted by Noam Chomsky in World Orders Old and New

  Alex Carey

  Topics in Democracy, Justice, Politics

  Tags in Human Rights, Globalism

• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  George Washington

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Liberals

• Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

  John Bright

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Minorities, Majorities

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Topics in Democracy, Opportunity

  Tags in Equality

• In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities

• Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

  Jane Elizabeth Auer

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Problem Solving

• The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Democracy, Honesty, Politics

  Tags in Government

• Citizenship is what makes a republic — monarchies can get along without it.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it’s not something that happens just with one event. It’s an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

  Jim Hightower

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Elections

• I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Government

• Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

  Barry Goldwater

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Government

• It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Topics in Democracy, Power

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities, Radicals

• The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Apathy, Indifference, Rebellion

• 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

  Topics in Democracy, Opportunity, Respect

  Tags in Equality

• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Democracy, Power, Service

• There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.

  Demosthenes

  Topics in Democracy, Politics, Trust