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Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed those conversations when they speak out their own views.
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If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.
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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it's the bully that fronts to know war and democracy like none other, therefore leading the global arbitration on both fronts.
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Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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- Nov 07, 2020