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The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free. — John W. Gardner
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight… — John W. Gardner
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by… — Samuel Johnson
So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give! — Will Rogers
Women must have economic and social equality with men. — Margaret Sanger
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. — Walt Whitman
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion. — Marguerite Young
I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and… — Edward Dmytryk
So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum. — Rudy Giuliani
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this… — Joy Behar
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance.… — Felix S. Cohen
This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We… — Amby Burfoot
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still… — Nigel Farage
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain… — Natan Sharansky
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you. — Natan Sharansky
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. — John Negroponte
They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't… — Thomas G. Stemberg
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky
Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment. — Mary McLeod Bethune
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. — Robert Waterman McChesney
It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all day… — Jay Leno
You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what… — Nelson Mandela
In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do… — Bertrand Russell

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