Civil rights Quote by A. Philip Randolph

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down…

— Walter Lippmann

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the…

— Aberjhani

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among…

— Plato

In a democracy, people are supreme.

— Arvind Kejriwal

I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and…

— Albert Einstein

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in…

— Aristotle

In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas