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“The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.”

World States Moments America United United States Democracy Awe Accountability Solemn Pinnacle American Democracy Awe Inspiring Primacy World Power

Author:Winston Churchill

“It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.”

Knows World Needs States Moments God Seems Time Spirituality United History United States Democracy Future Survival Commitment Crisis Severe Interfaith

Author:Walter Cronkite

“But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.”

Ends Moments Democracy Politician Scientist Experiments Denial Consensus

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.”

Mind Art Moments Government Difficult Common Democracy Habit Citizens Spheres Literacy Ratios Habits Of Mind

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.”

Men Moments Ability Answers Destiny Democracy Honest Masters Trials Reform Being Honest Relief Cynical Efficient Smashing

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.”

Ifs Moments Fighting Democracy Sacrifice Nonviolence Legislature

Book:Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives

Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives

“The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.”

Moments Politics Democracy Danger Dull

Author:Lord Hailsham

“Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.”

May Moments Together Guy Names Democracy Four Jazz Marquee

Author:Al Jarreau

“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.”

“The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.”

Moments Justice Principles Democracy Psychology Models Universal Collectives Heritage Elsewhere Exclusive Cultural Heritage

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.”

Ideas Moments Interesting Democracy Election Voting Defining Defining Moments Democracy In America

Author:Jeff Melvoin

“It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It was really this strenuous challenge to citizens to use their moments of leisure, which he defined as time away from work, to collect the facts that were necessary for full democratic participation.”

Ifs Needs Moments Facts Use Sound Challenges Democracy Citizens Democratic Educated Defined Leisure Participation Time Away

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about.”