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Tag Name "Democracy" (2727)

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In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one lesson Western citizens can learn from those countries: treasure what you have. Use your rights and freedoms to effect the change you want.
Kofi Annan
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Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.
Robert Neelly Bellah
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The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.
John Dewey
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To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.
Shahin Najafi
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We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
Walter Cronkite
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growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
Abigail McCarthy
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
Vartan Gregorian
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The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
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What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.
Jonathan Wood
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Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.
Philip K. Howard
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The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
Bashar al-Assad
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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
Henry Louis Gates
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
Akbar Ganji
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This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.
George W. Bush
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I think [Winston] Churchill said it was [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others. And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.
Michael Bloomberg
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
William Ralph Inge
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Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
Edward Kennedy
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz
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When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.
Naomi Wolf
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The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.
Scott McClellan
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There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.
Nelson Mandela
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The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
John Bruton
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