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Louis D. Brandeis: “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”

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Hubert H. Humphrey: “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.”

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Arnold Toynbee: “The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.”

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Louis D. Brandeis: “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”

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Marshall McLuhan: “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

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Madame de Stael: “Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.”

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A. Philip Randolph: “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.”

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Paulo Freire: “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.”

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Alice Miller: “Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course -- because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.”

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William Ellery Channing: “The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt: “I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.”

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: “The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.”

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Wendy Kaminer: “Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice -- a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

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Charles Evan Hughes: “When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”

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Robert Byrne: “Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

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Sydney J. Harris: “Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”

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Jim Hightower: “Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.”

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Alice Duer Miller: “Democracy is this -- to hold That all who wander down the pike In cart or car, on foot or bike, Or male or female, young or old, Are much alike -- are much alike.”

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Howard Dean: “At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.”

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Woodrow Wilson: “The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

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Thomas Mann: “It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”

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Hannah Arendt: “Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -- moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -- but no opinion.”

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Reinhold Niebuhr: “Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

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Jim Hightower: “If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? ”

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Mary Parker Follett: “It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.”

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Thomas Mann: “Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ”

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