Can not Quote by Richard Benjamin

It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where…

— Keith Preston

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

— Michael Sandel

The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy…

— Sheila Jackson Lee

“What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to…

— David Graeber

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds…

— Michael Sandel

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved…

— Nelson Mandela

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

— Pramila Jayapal

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

— Lee Harvey Oswald

I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy,…

— Angela Davis

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity…

— Carl Schmitt

Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved…

— Howard Zinn