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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
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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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"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."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
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"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
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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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"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Change
"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
Hope
"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
War
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
Democracy
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
Money
"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."
Dream
"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
Transportation
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
Freedom
"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."
Reading
"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."
Death
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