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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I was reading.”
    ― Ghandi
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  • #3
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, marxism, radicalism, rebellion, revolution, socialism
    286 likes

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  • #4
    Abraham Lincoln
    “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, elections, irony
    166 likes

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  • #5
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: bravery, catholic, catholic-author, christian, citizen, citizenship, corruption, courage, defending-your-country, democracy, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-speech, gadfly, injustice, justice, not-in-my-name, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, politics, protesting, protests, speak-out, speak-up, speak-up-and-step-up, speaking-out, speaking-up, standing-up, truth, unpatriotic, whistle-blower, whistle-blowers, whistle-blowing
    114 likes

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  • #6
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, democracy, elections, voters
    364 likes

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  • #7
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
    tags: democracy
    282 likes

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  • #8
    “Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".”
    ― Myron Fagan
    tags: corruption, democracy, dishonesty, politicians, politics
    138 likes

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  • #9
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: democracy, politics, rebellion, revolution
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  • #10
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt, New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: democracy, progressive, progressivism
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  • #11
    H.L. Mencken
    “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: christianity, democracy
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  • #12
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, government, judicial-power, republicanism, separation-of-powers
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  • #13
    Thomas L. Friedman
    “When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.”
    ― Thomas L. Friedman
    tags: democracy, democracy-fascism, democracy-freedom, democracy-voting, democrats, elections, free-speech, media, political-science, politics-observation, politics-science, politicsics, republicans
    102 likes

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  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
    people.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy
    60 likes

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  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: democracy, humour, satire
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    Howard Zinn
    “There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: democracy, government, oligarchy, plutocracy
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  • #17
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward
    tags: democracy, human-rights, humanity, political, politics
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: constitution, democracy, freedom, liberty
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  • #19
    Jack London
    “you call me anarchist. You, who have destroyed the government of the people”
    ― Jack London, The Iron Heel
    tags: anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, capitalists, democracy, government, oligarchs, oligarchy
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  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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