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“The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.”

People Body Government House Voice Principles Unique Direct Election Branches Exception Rooted Federal Government

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.”

Government Voice Protest Buttons Mute

Author:Witold Walczak

“For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.”

People Should Government Politics Voice Power Should Have Election Stability

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.”

People Real Government Voice Deals Western Representatives Be Encouraged Kurdish

Author:Jalal Talabani

“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.”

Ifs Should Ends Government Would Be Winning Force Voice Pleasure Numbers Liberty Greater Fellows Slave Reasonable Baseness

Author:John Milton

“A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.”

Government Sex Voice Liberty Color Standing Vote Firm Hinder Stand Firm

Author:Frederick Douglass

“People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.”

People Thinking Humans Government Energy Voice Periods Sacred Human Wisdom

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

“The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media.”

Mean Important Stories Government Able Voice Opinion Media Balance Communicate Favors Opposition Editorials

Author:Stephen Harper

“War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.”

Men War Reason Government Dies Fall Voice Son Arms Easier Burden Curious Appeals Protest Fearful Anomalies

Book:Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front

Source: Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front

“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.”

World Government Order Difficult Voice Silence Vision Journey Movement Speech Censorship Interiors Outrage Outside World Difficult Journeys

Book:Writing in an Age of Silence

Source: Writing in an Age of Silence