#racy

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#democracy #elections #last #our #reclaim

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#class #class struggle #democracy #external #international

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#allowed #being #candidate #democracy #dislike

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#government #iraq #puppet #setting #states

I want people to learn what democracy means. ↗

— Jack Ma

#i #learn #means #people #want

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#before #class #confined #educated #goal

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#countries #democracy #industrial #limited #luxury

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive