Democratic Quotes - Page 17

• At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

  Barack Obama

  People, Debate, American History

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, Racism, Historical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems to me, to subjugate blacks to the dynamics of oppression, poverty. The mass incarceration state.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Party, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think in light of the other two registers that you mention, there's also that moment. I mean, to what degree do we begin to take education seriously about the production of a subject in which questions of individual and social agency are linked to democratic possibilities?
  And so for me, there are three registers there that we need to address.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Fighting, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning of a long struggle for the institutions, values and infrastructures that make critical education and community the center of a robust, radical democracy. This is a challenge for young people and all those invested in the promise of a democracy that extends not only the meaning of politics, but also a commitment to economic justice and democratic social change.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Commitment, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Doe, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Morning, Party, June

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Party, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I am far more concerned about policies of the Democratic administration and Democratic Party that infringe on the rights of religious institutions and practices and open the door for using taxpayer dollars for abortions, to which many Americans have profound moral objections. Those are steps that would show a lack of respect for Catholics and their institutions.

  John I. Jenkins

  Religious, Party, Rights

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

  Kshama Sawant

  Taken, Hands, Healthcare

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Jobs, People

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• The two majority candidates right now, the Democratic and Republican candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Hillary] Clinton, are the most disliked and untrusted Presidential candidates in our history with more than majority disapproval.

  Jill Stein

  Two, Presidential, Majority

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Independent, Minorities

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote.

  Jill Stein

  Campaigns, Splits, Bills

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Bernie [Sanders], the team player, he made it known from the very start that he would be supporting the Democratic nominee, presumably Hillary Clinton, and what we learned in the course of Bernie's campaign is that you cannot have a revolutionary campaign in a counter-revolutionary party.

  Jill Stein

  Team, Party, Player

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The [Democratic] party pulled out its kill switch against Bernie [Sanders] and sabotaged him. As we saw from the emails revealed, showing the collusion between the Democratic National Committee, Hillary's campaign, and members of the corporate media.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Media, Saws

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Bernie's campaign was very principled in most regards, I think, you know, he certainly didn't go far enough in questioning the military policy, the military-industrial complex, and so on, but you know I think that's the price you pay for being in the Democratic Party. And Bernie [Sanders] has to pay that price.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• If Bernie Sanders were liberated from the Democratic Party, it might be a whole new ballgame.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Might, Ballgame

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• You know we have Democratic centrists here to blame for the economic conditions driving this rightwing extremism. So the solution here, you know, is not Hillary Clinton and more of the Clintonism centrist, the centrist Clinton philosophy that is greeding this economic misery.

  Jill Stein

  Philosophy, Driving, Misery

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the basic foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party inside of Hillary's campaign.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Foundation

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

  Ralph Nader

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Democratic Socialism, People

  Source: nefac.net

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