Abram L. Sachar Quotes
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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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.
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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.
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Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.
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Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies.
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I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people's right to know is cherished and guarded.
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Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
