Democracy Quotes - Page 20

• What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lunch, Hamburgers, Ifs

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• If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

  Julian Sanchez

  Hate, Als, Months

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• There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Book, Two, Essentials

  Geoffrey Nunberg (2009). “The Years of Talking Dangerously”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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• If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Needs, Flags, Protection

  "House Passes Flag-Burning Amendment". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2005.

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• Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

  David Korten

  Way, Communism, Defeated

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• The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, World, Way

  "Real Peace". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1983.

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• A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

  Sam Smith

  Numbers, Covering, News

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• A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Population, Safe

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• For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Political

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.1157, Best Books on

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• We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Fighting, Healthy, Quality

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• I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, People, Heard

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• The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

  Gore Vidal

  Latin, Roots, Want

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• Neutral men are the devil's allies.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Devil, Allies

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• It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

  George H. W. Bush

  Too Much, Debate, Appearance

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 10, 1999.

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• We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

  Glenn Ford

  Fate, Cities, Development

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• The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

  Milton Friedman

  Hands, Political, Recipes

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

  George W. Bush

  Should Have, Information, Absolutes

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• Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

  Sam Smith

  Media, Taught Us, Tests

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• When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

  Studs Terkel

  Views, News, Propaganda

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• If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Community, Enough, Broads

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• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

  Robert Musil

  People, Voting, Threatening

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• Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.

  Wolfgang Thierse

  Mean, Responsibility, Self

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• What is a political party but a conspiracy?

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Political, Conspiracy

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• One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a system where you can vote for the fox or the wolf, but there's no little box that endorses the chickens. Our time will come, you can be sure of that.

  Stuart Wilde

  Rights, People, One Day

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• We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. We fear what will become of us and those that we care for. We fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. We fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear. The present War on Terror is the War of Fear. No Fear, no control.

  David Icke

  War, Thinking, Past

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