American democracy rests on a foundation of competing…

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

— Arundhati Roy

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a…

— Mary Parker Follett

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had…

— Michael Eric Dyson

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be…

— Brian Stelter

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their…

— Heather Cox Richardson

That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have…

— Charles R. Chamberlain

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter.…

— Michael Gerson

This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking efforts. They're…

— Masha Gessen

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice.…

— Stewart Udall

Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country.

— Josh Shapiro

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis

As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other…

— Bernie Sanders