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I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.

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Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the…
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the…
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think…
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about…
I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects…
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can…
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are…
Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that…
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what…
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped…
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting…

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Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of… — Unknown Author
The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is… — 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… — 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… — Hillary Clinton
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by… — Barbara Boxer
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country… — 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… — 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… — 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? I don't want to go down that low. I want the… — 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… — Leo Szilard
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is… — Jay Griffiths

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