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The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Act Democracy Future Important Rights States Still United United States Vitally Voting Voting Rights

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Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Democracy Difficult Endeavor Hard Spectator Sport

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Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Alike Because Constitutional Created Democracy Descended Earth Equal Family Forth Founded Founders Genius Idea Inalienable Looked Nation Oldest Our Prayed Put Rights Same Tree

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I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

~Craig T. Nelson

Topics: Being Country Democracy Dissolved Grew Grow Grow Up Had Hope Imagination Kids People Republic See Sudden Up Want Which World I See

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When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy.

~Cyril Ramaphosa

Topics: Agree Country Courts Democracy Final Important Matters Might Our Pillar Rule Them Which

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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.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Brings Closets Democracy Dislike Down Electric Else Everything Just Level Light Mere More Nothing Prices See Vulgar Wages Water I See

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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Topics: Am Basic Belief Brings Democracy Expression Freedoms Granted Having Lived Mindful Need Never Never Take Take Take For Granted Thought Through Totalitarianism Transition I Am

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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Topics: Democracy Everywhere Incomplete Nature Need Progress Remember Think Work I Think

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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

~Dalai Lama

Topics: Along Backward Cannot China Democracy Freedom Go Individual Individual Freedom Later Liberty Sooner Sooner Or Later Trends Way World

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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

~Dalton Trumbo

Topics: Business Citizen Democracy Dishonesty Enough Every Gift Government Job Own Particular Responsibility Virtue Your

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