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“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”

“Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.”

Dies Grows Democracy Alive Dictatorship Living Things

Author:Saul Alinsky

“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?”

Desire Democracy Alive Higher Hatred Excellence

Book:The Last of the Wine

Source: The Last of the Wine

“Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.”

Inspirational Motivational Earth Growth Democracy Alive Economic Planets Eating Debt Economic Growth Planet Earth Eco

Author:Paul Gilding

“I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.”

Thinking Wells I Can House Democracy Alive Century Information Achievement Concerned Absolutes Library Worthy Access Treasure Offering Free Society Backbone

Author:Gillian Roberts

“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.”

Ifs Trying Philosophy Hands Faces Desire Democracy Alive Democratic Critical Experiments Dialogue Wrestling Fragile Disposition Domination Dogmatism

Author:Cornel West