Democratic Quotes - Page 18

• Tonight I am going with my wife to a Democratic party, where we're going to...try to be happy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Party, Wife, Trying

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• The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that any man can be substituted for any other so that his differences make no difference. The two are not at all the same. The democratic rule that all men are equal means that men's being different cannot be made a basis for special privilege or for the invidious advantage of one man over another; equality, under the democratic rule, is the freedom and opportunity of each individual to be fully and completely his different self. Democracy means the right to be different.

  Horace Kallen

  Confused, Mean, Men

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• We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

  Yasser Arafat

  Democracy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I wanted people to kind of take a peek to see that the pain, even though you may see them out at the Democratic National Convention or at Essence [Festival] or any of these other places, that the pain is still very real for these women [from the "Mothers of the Movement"].

  Ed Gordon

  Mother, Pain, Real

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

  Robert Hass

  Ideas, Soul, Able

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I take note of the fact that there are a lot of people who appreciate what I do as parliament president, not just within my Social Democratic party group, but also among the conservatives.

  Martin Schulz

  Party, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Democracy, Kashmir, India

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• [Hillart Clinton] holds the illusion that we can make fossil fuel safe, and that they are safe, and she established an office for fracking. We know who she's taking the money from. We know who the Democratic Party is taking the money from.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Office, Fossils

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Pigs, Vote

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Thinking

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Maybe he [Bernie Sanders] still thinks about the Democratic Party as the party of the New Deal.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Thinking, Deals

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has repudiated the Democratic and Republican parties? Why are they still in charge?

  Jill Stein

  Block, Party, Voters

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Organization, Community, Isms

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Best Effort, Speech, Remember

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Games, Long

  Source: time.com

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• If you look at the well-informed Democratic Sanders activists - I don't know if you were in Philadelphia, but there was no secret about their enthusiasm for our campaign. But once you got more remote from the super activists in the Bernie [Sanders] camp, they don't know so much about our campaign. And the question is whether they are going to have a chance to be informed.

  Jill Stein

  Philadelphia, Secret, Campaigns

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost Congress because people were very disappointed in what the Obama administration did - bailing out Wall Street instead of bailing out Main Street. So as someone who follows the climate very closely, there's no question that "all of the above" has been an absolute disaster.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Two, People

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Office, Risk

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Voting, Competition

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Perception, Trying

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Want, Members

  "Interview: Diane Abbott, Candidate for British Labour Party Leader". Interview with Kim Pearson, www.blogher.com.

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• I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems to me, to subjugate blacks to the dynamics of oppression, poverty. The mass incarceration state.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Party, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think in light of the other two registers that you mention, there's also that moment. I mean, to what degree do we begin to take education seriously about the production of a subject in which questions of individual and social agency are linked to democratic possibilities?
  And so for me, there are three registers there that we need to address.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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