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title: "18 Make Democracy Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Make Democracy quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Make Democracy sayings and thoughts."
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> [What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/what-is-really-needed-to-make-democracy-function-is-not-knowledge-of/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-cronkite/journalism-is-what-we-need-to-make-democracy-work/)

[Walter Cronkite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-cronkite/)

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> [I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benigno-aquino-iii/i-want-to-make-democracy-work-not-only-for-the-rich-and-the-well/)

[Benigno Aquino III](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benigno-aquino-iii/)

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> [To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/to-make-democracy-work-you-need-an-aristocratic-democracy-to-make/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/we-say-that-if-america-has-entered-the-war-to-make-the-world-safe-for/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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> [To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-l-amour/to-make-democracy-work-we-must-be-a-nation-of-participants-not-simply/)

[Louis L'Amour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-l-amour/)

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> [We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aung-san-suu-kyi/we-must-make-democracy-the-popular-creed-if-we-should-fail-to-do-this/)

[Aung San Suu Kyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aung-san-suu-kyi/)

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> [Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis/customs-traditions-laws-should-be-flexible-within-good-reason-if-that/)

[John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis/)

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> [To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-l-amour/to-make-democracy-work-we-must-be-a-notion-of-participants-not-simply/)

[Louis L'Amour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-l-amour/)

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> [Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/human-beings-are-just-good-enough-to-make-democracy-possible-just-bad/)

[Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/)

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> [No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lippmann/no-amount-of-charters-direct-primaries-or-short-ballots-will-make-a/)

[Walter Lippmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lippmann/)

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> [Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-young/everybody-in-america-has-been-dependent-on-the-government-at-some/)

[Andrew Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-young/)

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> [“Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fareed-zakaria/eighty-years-ago-woodrow-wilson-took-america-into-the-twentieth/)

[Fareed Zakaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fareed-zakaria/)

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> [Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hallie-flanagan/neither-should-the-theater-in-our-country-be-regarded-as-a-luxury-it/)

[Hallie Flanagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hallie-flanagan/)

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> [It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-freire/it-is-truly-difficult-to-make-a-democracy-democracy-like-arty-dream/)

[Paulo Freire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-freire/)

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> [You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cory-booker/you-need-to-understand-something-you-drink-deeply-from-wells-of/)

[Cory Booker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cory-booker/)

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> [Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-giroux/education-as-a-democratic-project-always-presupposes-a-vision-of-the/)

[Henry Giroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-giroux/)

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> [We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/we-say-that-if-america-has-entered-the-war-to-make-the-world-safe-for-2/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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                        "text": "It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.",
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                        "text": "You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.",
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                        "text": "Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of social life. It is utopian in its goal of expanding and deepening the ideological and material conditions that make a democracy possible. As a moral and political practice, education produces the modes of literacy, critique, sense of social responsibility, and civic courage necessary to imbue young people with the knowledge and skills needed to enable them to be engaged critical citizens willing to fight for a sustainable and just society.",
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                        "text": "We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?",
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