In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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