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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. ↗

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#america #campaign #clearly #congress #democracy

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#citizens #cruel #democracy #exercising #majority

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#democracy #may #mutiny #ship #sink

After each war there is a little less democracy to save. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#democracy #each #less #little #save

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. ↗