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Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961. -- Bill Ayers
[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program. -- Bill Ayers
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. -- Bill Ayers
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 university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War. -- Bill Ayers
The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that. -- Bill Ayers
It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just a couple years before I got there. So, there was a kind of a churning of political awareness. It was just beginning. -- Bill Ayers
We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question. -- Kurt Russell
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. -- Anna Lindh
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda. -- Alan Greenspan
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society. -- Ma Ying-jeou
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. -- Helen Suzman
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. -- Hans Haacke
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. -- Walter Lippmann
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. -- Spencer Bachus
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. -- Studs Terkel
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. -- Peter L. Berger
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. -- Elton Gallegly
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. -- W. H. Auden
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society. -- Aberjhani
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls. -- Henning Mankell
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. -- Stephen Harper
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. -- Brad Holland
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. -- J. William Fulbright
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. -- Virginia Gildersleeve
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. -- Yitzhak Shamir
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens. -- Dennis Kucinich
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. -- Tawakkol Karman
What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like. -- Henry Giroux
Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. -- Douglas Wilder
I've always lived in a democratic society. -- Pierre Trudeau
In a democratic society, the only treason is silence. -- Anna Quindlen
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. -- Oliver Tambo
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. -- Thomas Jefferson
The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society. -- Robert Bly
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. -- Carl Sagan
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are. -- Barbara Mikulski
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press. -- Jeremy Scahill
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. -- Naomi Wolf
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. -- Tim Holden
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. -- Christopher Dawson
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor. -- David Brion Davis
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning. -- Lewis Black
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. -- John Paul Stevens
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. -- Vladimir Lenin
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest. -- Barbara Jordan
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. -- Nelson Mandela
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society? -- Herbert Schiller
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. -- Jimmy Carter
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society. -- Koichiro Matsuura
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor. -- Mark Twain
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society. -- Amy Goodman
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine. -- Peter Tatchell
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year. -- Jan C. Ting
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. -- Herbert Read
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. -- Lucy Powell
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. -- Pope John Paul II
However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did. -- Rory Kinnear
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny. -- Richard Ebeling
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society. -- Ruth Manorama
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society. -- Ela Bhatt
The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for the rights of all Iraqis. -- Mary Robinson
Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that. -- Bernie Sanders
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education. -- John Dewey
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. -- Lee R. Raymond
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions. -- Condoleezza Rice
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate. -- Rocco Buttiglione
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it. -- George Will
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. -- Jose Saramago
I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody. -- Paul van Dyk
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen. -- Aberjhani
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action. -- Joyce Banda
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity. -- Clare Boothe Luce
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse. -- Saul Bellow
[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits. -- Sam Brownback
I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one. -- Brian Day
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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields. -- Gunnar Myrdal
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it. -- John Lewis

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