Abram L. Sachar Quotes
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Abram L. Sachar
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
Salman Rushdie
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The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
Barbara Mikulski
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama
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When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Haley Bennett
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Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.
John Ralston Saul
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I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"
Barack Obama
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Abram L. Sachar
