June Jordan Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

  June Jordan

  Country, Fighting, Men

• A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

  June Jordan

  Strong, Democracy, Welfare

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.167, Basic Books

• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

• If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.

  June Jordan

  Names, Voice, Diversity

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.154, Basic Books

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