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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
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"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
Change
"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
Time
"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."
People
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
Creativity
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
Love
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
Power
"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."
Beauty
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
Nothing
"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."
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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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