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It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. And why not? Who knew American democracy more intimately than the Negro people? They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly
Equality Quotes
Democracy
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? - Voltaire
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Democracy
Voltaire Quotes
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
― Albert Camus
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Democracy
Majority
Protection
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Strength Positive Quotes
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Successful
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Strength
Democracy
Ralph
Authentic
Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs
― Edgar Allan Poe
Dog
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Democracy
Edgar Allan Poe
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
― Kin Hubbard
Business
Government
Democracy
Kin Hubbard
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Creating
Upset
Democracy
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
― Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
People
Democracy
Defense
Democracy is the road to socialism.
― Karl Marx
Historical
Democracy
Liberty
Karl Marx
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
War
Democracy
Soil
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
― Upton Sinclair
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Democracy
Corruption
Upton Sinclair
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Tyrants
Democracy
Dare
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
― Adhir Kalyan
Adhir Kalyan
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