Accustomed Quote by Carter G. Woodson

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

— John Simon

We understand that a thriving democracy would not be achieved if the people were still uneducated, and that, to educate them, the country has…

— Andre Vltchek

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left…

— Cal Thomas

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

— Anthony Kennedy

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies…

— Martha Nussbaum

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient…

— Ben Fountain

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

I want people to learn what democracy means.

— Jack Ma

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we…

— Edward Albee