Jill Stein Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

Jill Stein

Hate, Democracy, Needs

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.

Jill Stein

Democracy, Needs, Ifs

Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

Jill Stein

Mean, America, Democracy

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.

Jill Stein

Presidential, Promise, Democracy

Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the breaking point for me, though - and it made the case that in order to fight locally, we have to fight nationally; we can't afford to neglect any area of life in this democracy.

Jill Stein

Fighting, Order, Point Break

Source: www.pqmonthly.com
In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.

Jill Stein

War, Ecosystems, Track

Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.

Jill Stein

Voting, Democracy, Conviction

Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

Jill Stein

Democracy, Needs, Firsts

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which suits our economic elite but has not been helpful to the cause of democracies around the world.

Jill Stein

Thinking, Rights, Support

Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

Jill Stein

Silence, Political, Democracy

Source: www.truth-out.org
[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich.They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it to Howard Dean, the "Dean Scream." Jesse Jackson, another kind of PR smear campaign.Meanwhile, the party keeps marching to the right and becomes more corporatist and elitist and imperialist.

Jill Stein

Party, Democracy, Campaigns

Source: www.politico.com
Democracy needs a moral compass.

Jill Stein

Democracy, Needs, Moral

Twitter post from Apr 24, 2016
[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

Jill Stein

Party, Democracy, Progressive

Source: www.politico.com
It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.

Jill Stein

Moving, Democracy, Needs

Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

Jill Stein

Political, Democracy, Economic

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

Jill Stein

Hate, Democracy, Needs

Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
In the words of Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice, we have a choice between a democracy or vast concentrations of wealth. We have vast concentrations of wealth which has bought its way into our democracy with its political leaders who exemplify the merger of that economic and political elite.

Jill Stein

Concentration Of Wealth, Justice, Choices

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.

Jill Stein

Media, Law, Risk

Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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