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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: Black Democracy Election Hours Leading People Places Polling Rain Through Unworthy Vote Voters Wait Which While White World Zip

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Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.

~Adam Michnik

Topics: Am Anchor Because Democracy Knew Why

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Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

~Adam Schiff

Topics: Breeding Democracy Grounds Poor Terrorism War

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We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

~Adam Schiff

Topics: Change Characterize Civil Civil Liberties Democracy Fear Liberties Life Live Our Terrorists Undermine Way Will

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

~Adhir Kalyan

Topics: Accent Acting Africa Because Color Community Democracy Different English Era Feeling First First Generation Found Generation Growing Growing Up Indian Living Myself New Often Only Otherwise Person School South South Africa Teacher Teens Training Up Very Within

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Beginning Citizens Democracy End Law-Abiding Ruled Rulers You

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Confidence Democracy Everything Faith Fight Government Indispensable Integrity Lose Lost Public Spend System

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The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

~Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Topics: Able Constructing Democracy Must Relevance Show Usefulness

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Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: After Alexander Been Cities City Death Democracy Evolved Founded Great Greeks Had Hercules Hybrid Indigenous Indigenous People Like Many Monarchy People Prosperous Son Western Who

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Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

~Aeschines

Topics: Armed Assured Citizen Citizens Constitution Democracy Despot Fellow Fellow Citizens Find Guard Guards Laws Person Protection State Suspicion Whereas

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