And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

Malcolm X

Tags: liberty deception democracy hypocrisy oppression american-dream



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Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

Thom Hartmann

Tags: activism democracy activist



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He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?

Saul Bellow

Tags: democracy soul demands



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If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: choice democracy vote



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When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!"

(Homer Simpson)

Matt Groening

Tags: democracy the-simpsons homer-simpson



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Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Janet Poppendieck

Tags: democracy inequality charity



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This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

Tariq Ali

Tags: democracy capitalism economics leftism deregulation neoliberalism anti-democratic-thought financial-regulation late-2000s-financial-crisis late-2000s-recession



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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Gaston Arman de Caillavet

Tags: democracy



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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

Jennifer Egan

Tags: democracy america language wit web disgust



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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Noam Chomsky

Tags: democracy totalitarianism propaganda repression mass-media



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