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• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizenship

• Once you don’t vote your ideals… that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals

  Tags in Affect, Moral

• The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Topics in Democracy, Leadership

  Tags in Social, Direction, Own, Stronger

• Social democracy… is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Topics in Democracy, Work

  Tags in Social, Advance, Blood, Piece

• Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers’ struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Social, Particular, Direction, Struggle

• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

  DeForest Soaries

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Committed, Guaranteeing

• Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Necessary, Man

• Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Problems, Finding

• A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Democracy

• We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Action, Freedom

• Democracy doesn’t recognize east or west; democracy is simply people’s will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Topics in Democracy

• Any leader who doesn’t support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Democracy, Humanity, Leadership

• Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Democracy, God

• Some foreign countries have gone far beyond us in making sure that voting procedures and registration of voters is at a high level of true democracy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy

• Some states have passed abominable laws that are a disgrace to democracy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy

• There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Extreme, Voting, Freedom, Interest, Determination

• The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy, Experience

• The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

  Robert Orben

  Topics in Democracy, History

  Tags in Time, Price