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“One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.”

“You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.”

Knows Belief Democracy Conscience Democratic

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.”

People Thinking Mind Doe Individual Belief Nations Pressure Democratic Enormous Aristocratic

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.”

Belief Democracy Impossible Institutions Democratic

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe.”

Source: Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial

“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Names Belief Party Support Position Majority Democratic Convinced Recognition Opponents Democratic Party Columns

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Belief Theory Democratic Environmental Accepted Orthodox Investigation Stood Up Heredity Human Equality

Author:Arthur Jensen

“A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.”

States Belief Particular Protect Racism Democratic Harm

Author:Mario Bunge