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. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it. -- Lester Bangs
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. -- Edward Abbey
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action. -- Greg Thomas
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. -- Archibald MacLeish
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. -- Hillary Clinton
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. -- Corazon Aquino
But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy. -- Sherwood Boehlert
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. -- Harold Russell
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. -- Henry A. Wallace
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly. -- Andrew Young
Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic. -- Judd Gregg
All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.' We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate. -- Hassan Rouhani
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. -- Brian Eno
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament. -- Bob Brown
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. -- Howard Zinn
The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system. -- Dora Russell
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. -- Benazir Bhutto
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action. -- Raya Dunayevskaya
We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values. -- Edward Snowden
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi. -- George Orwell

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