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• The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner.

  Paulo Freire

  Topics in Democracy, Education

  Tags in Curiosity, Freedom, Thinking

• The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Government

• The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy, Justice, Politics, Power

  Tags in Arnold Toynbee

• We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people’s policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

  Hubert Humphrey

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Human Rights

• In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

  James William Fulbright

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

• The great danger for American democracy is not from the protesters. That democracy is too poorly realized for us to consider critics — even rebels — as the chief problem. Its fulfillment requires us all, living in an ossified system which sustains too much killing and too much selfishness, to join the protest.

  Howard Zinn

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

• Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

  Howard Zinn

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

  Tags in Absolutely, Departure

• If you don’t speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

  Jim Hightower

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

• There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Commitment, Democracy

  Tags in Ethics, Earth, Community

• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs — in religion, literature, colleges and schools — democracy in all public and private life….

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Equality, Elections

• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Patriotism, Voting

• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Action

• Were busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Afghanistan, Iraq

• I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

  Tags in Diversity, Enemies, Difficulties

• Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

  Tags in Enemies, Difficulties

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, SantCa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Heaven, Dreams

• 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

• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals

  Tags in Faith, Ideas