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"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"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."
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us."
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"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time."
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"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
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"Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition."
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"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."
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"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."
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"I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced."
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"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"
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"The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible."
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"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."
Education
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