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“If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.”

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Wendell H. Ford was a distinguished American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Kentucky. Born on September 8, 1924, and passing away on January 22, 2015, he dedicated several decades of his life to public service. more

“One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.”

Feels Facts Home President Democracy New York College Source Pride Democratic Library University Scholar Posture Public Library Continuance Everyman

Author:Vartan Gregorian

“Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.”

Way Humans May Force Human Beings Attitude Democracy Human Nature Possibility Paper Relation Daily Life Controlled Display Incidents Statutes

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.”

Found Nations Democracy Library Portal

Author:David McCullough

“I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'”

Knows Men Way Feels Doe Cities Habit Best Way Drivers Shut Up New Yorkers Bad Habits

Author:J. Cole

“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”

Reality Forever Democracy Possibility Achievement Ideals Sorry Heroic Contrast Tease I Am Sorry

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.”

People Left Process Growth Term Numbers Democracy Civilization Increase Categories Decrease

Author:Howie Winter

“Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.”

Problem Democracy Voting Protest

Author:Jane Bowles

“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.”

People May Use School Form Literature Names Belief Party Democracy College Flower Highest Election Fruit Manners Interaction Private Life

Book:Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile

Source: Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile

“The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures”

Purpose Belief Democracy Security Crime Ignorance Argument Chaos Endless Ridicule Scholastics Rulership Supplanting

Book:The Portable Walt Whitman

Source: The Portable Walt Whitman

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