Achievement Quote by Herbert Croly

“Democracy commits us to value, preserve and uphold the rights, dignity, and well-being of all, including our neighbors, those who are different than us,…

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

— Charles W. Pickering

“Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always…

— D.H. Lawrence

The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to…

— Saul Alinsky

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs…

— Walter Lippmann

The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body…

— Rebecca Solnit

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an…

— Cecily McMillan

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual…

— Louis D. Brandeis