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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed."
"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
"You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!"
"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
Explore more quotes by Carter G. Woodson
"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."
"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."
"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."
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