True Democracy Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of… — Wiley Blount Rutledge
The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for… — Hillary Clinton
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just… — Barbara Boxer
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no… — Eleanor Roosevelt
It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and… — Ani DiFranco
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race,… — Carrie Chapman Catt
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. — Hillary Clinton
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man?Â I don't want to go down that low.Â I want the true… — Fannie Lou Hamer
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a… — Leo Szilard
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true… — Jay Griffiths
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people… — Nawal El Saadawi
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being… — Salmon P. Chase
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. — Hillary Clinton
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true… — Gloria Steinem
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. — Robert Orben
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Who Wrote These True Democracy Quotes

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