“Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.” DemocracyListeningRhetoricHis Love Author:Noam Chomsky
“I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.” YearsCountryStatesTodayPoliticalPoliticsCommunityUnitedViewsPartyTechnologyUnited StatesDemocracyGenerationsPolicyListeningRepublicanEthicsDemocratHuman RightsIndividualityTerrorismEastIdeologyFree SpeechPolitical PartiesDisobedienceBerlinCivil DisobedienceGridsEast Berlin Author:Jesse Ventura
“I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern, a question really, is, do I have the courage to speak? If I speak I believe someone will respond. It then becomes my responsibility to listen to that person. And in listening, together we create a space where people can be heard. It's the conversation that I care most deeply about; this is the space I want to honor, respect, and protect. This is my faith in the open space of democracy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBelievePersonsCareTogetherSpeakI BelieveSpaceResponsibilityDemocracyHeardListeningHonorProtectConversationConcernI CareOpen Spaces Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” DoeMotivationalPoliticalLanguageFreedomDemocracyTakenHeardCommunicationListeningFree SpeechLife And Love Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.” Has BeensStoriesDemocracyListeningIntelligentLifetimeAcceptedBuriedPrivilegedVocabularyArenaExcludedReceptionMarginalizedDisenfranchised Author:Susan Griffin