What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
“A democratic society must seek to give every young person, whether native-born or newcomer, the knowledge and skills to succeed as an… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive.… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Honesty . . . is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it . . . there can… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden,… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource,… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society… if… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Contrary to unwritten political law of abuse, Civilians are not the doormats of democracy. Civilians are the doors, civilians are the buildings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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