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The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert Hoover
Alone
Freedom
Democracy
Guardian
Party
Charter
Ark
New
New Deal
Deal
Covenant
Left
Republican
Republican Party
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Howard Rheingold
Democracy
You
Revolution
Unlocked
Press
Simply
Until
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Printing
Printing Press
Govern
Literacy
Themselves
Who
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
Ismail Haniyeh
Freedom
Democracy
People
Spring
Heroic
Syria
Arab
Striving
Arab Spring
Reform
Salute
Nations
Who
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Good
Democracy
Other
Worse
Say
Systems
Because
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Democracy
Equality
Value
Conviction
Only
Unshakable
Equal
Also
Person
Then
Requires
Who
Each
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
Democracy
You
Soul
Debate
Our
Way
Deliberation
Stir
Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.
Jill Stein
Needs
Silence
Democracy
Election
Oppose
Support
Supporters
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Majority
Him
Clinton
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Just
Where
Even
Now
Right
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
Life
Adversity
Democracy
Experience
Sometimes
Valuable
Changing
Having
More
Variety
Like
Tested
Been
Infinite
Turbulent
'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.
Joe Kennedy III
Democracy
Word
Compromise
Fact
Dirty
Supposed
How
Representative
In Fact
Works
But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
John Cusack
Democracy
You
Political
Sorry
Party
Blindly
Duty
Think
Other
Way
Some
Feel
Participate
Participation
Know
Sort
Political Party
Than
Getting
Behind
Just
Want
Process
Mean
Requires
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
Josephine Baker
Freedom
Democracy
Equality
Cruelty
France
Those
Fraternity
True
True Freedom
Get
Wanted
Land
Far
Far Away
Then
Who
Believed
Away
Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
Josephine Baker
Democracy
You
Respect
Eyes
Yourself
World
Treat
Preaching
Believe
Brothers
Colored
How
Expect
American
Your
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie
Good
Silence
Democracy
Better
Secrecy
Never
Information
Works
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
Ken Livingstone
Democracy
Own
Think
Those
Rather
Trivia
Undermined
Real
Issues
Real Issues
Than
Them
Newspapers
Who
Fill
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
Louis D. Brandeis
Good
Democracy
Justice
Liberty
Own
Individual
Through
Attainment
Development
Ideals
His
American
Common
Common Good
Social
Social Justice
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Madeleine Albright
Freedom
Democracy
Terrorism
Fight
People
World
Will
Poverty
Stage
Intimidated
Pushed
Like
Off
Disease
Against
Stand
Who
World Stage
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy
Change
Heart
Adjusted
Abolition
Spirit
Forms
Requires
Mechanical
Thing
The United Kingdom has committed the heresy of breaking the chains of the E.U. This is a signal victory for democracy. It is a slap in the face to the European system which was increasingly based on fear, blackmail, and lies.
Marine Le Pen
Democracy
Fear
Victory
Face
Increasingly
Signal
System
Lies
Kingdom
Committed
Which
Breaking
European
Chains
United
United Kingdom
Based
Slap
Heresy
Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.
Mauricio Macri
Work
Government
Democracy
Culture
Thinking
Our
Must
True
Toward
Venezuela
Ideological
Persecution
Achieving
Region
Room
Reasons
Based
Differently
This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
Maxine Waters
Democracy
Country
Our
Russia
Someone
Fact
Undermine
Cannot
Worked
Tolerate
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
Michael Pollan
Family
Democracy
Meal
Too
Nursery
Critical
Argue
Share
Learn
Without
Doing
Go
Been
Offending
Just
Where
Really
Let Go
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson
Freedom
Character
Democracy
Liberty
Ugly
Values
Anti-Semitism
Everyone
Respected
Religious
Hateful
Religious Freedom
Supposed
Particularly
Tide
Shocks
Where
Stain
Who
Growing
Acts
Conscious
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Life
Democracy
Socialism
Everyday Life
Everyday
Collectivism
More
Openness
Means
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Life
Democracy
Organization
Pure
Live
Air
Without
Cannot
Which
Public
Wholesome
Socialist
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
Milos Forman
Democracy
You
Free
Free Press
Cornerstone
Press
Tell
Opinion
In My Opinion
You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Freedom
Democracy
You
Rights
People
Dictatorship
Military
Changing
System
Has-Been
Charge
Outgoing
Give
New
Practicing
Been
Chicken
Bunch
Authoritarian
Task
Get
Egypt
Which
Regime
Republic
Etc
Second
Fox
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