Community Quote by Pierre Trudeau

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all…

— June Jordan

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a…

— Dana Rohrabacher

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…

— Tony Benn

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

— Pierre Trudeau

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the…

— Bill Ayers

Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a pretext. Those…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just…

— Bill Ayers

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

— Carl Sagan

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

— Edward Bernays

The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years…

— Bill Ayers

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those…

— Ordway Tead