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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others."
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"Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse."
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"We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."
Talent
"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."
Leadership
"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
Development
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
Inspirational
"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
Change
"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."
Thought
"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
Race
"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
Man
"Let us banish fear."
Fear
"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."
History
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