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“The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.”

“The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.”

Belief Democracy Depends Healthy Presses Very Strong

Author:Steve Jobs

“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.”

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Author:Robert Bellarmine

“Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.”

Speak Voice Democracy Heard Depends Resonance

Author:Carol Gilligan

“A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.”

Men Opportunity Democracy Seeing Depends Equal Tools Equality Access Integration

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”

Democracy Dangerous Depends Citizens Protect Scared Fragile Fabric

Author:Margaret Atwood

“A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.”

People Democracy Goes On Depends Delicate Brighter

Author:Norman Mailer

“If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.”

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Author:Alan Bullock

“Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.”

Political Process Democracy Depends Restoration Financing American Democracy

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.”

People Needs Young Left Stuff Democracy Havens Depends Stores Shirts

Author:Emilio Estevez

“The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.”

World Way Practice Democracy Depends Balls Series Bats World Series

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.”

People Hands Government Choices Principles Democracy Fate Depends Authority Tradition Opposites Absolutes Restraint Sovereignty Absolute Power Legality

Author:Lord Acton

“Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.”

People Democracy Depends Creating Crisis Speaking Out

Author:Howard Zinn

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

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Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook