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I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China. -- Simon Winchester
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. -- Robert Orben
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going. -- Ameen Rihani
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. -- Jay Griffiths
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet. -- Gloria Steinem
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy. -- Chiang Kai-shek
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. -- Hillary Clinton
In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. -- Lisa Birnbach
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. -- Hillary Clinton
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. -- Leyla Zana
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. -- Hillary Clinton
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion. -- Wiley Blount Rutledge
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
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth. -- Pearl S. Buck
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy. -- Gore Vidal
The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? -- Leo Szilard
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. -- Catharine Sedgwick
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive. -- David O. McKay
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world. -- Barbara Boxer
The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could you imagine what the Arab people would do if true democracy (rule of the people) were to be victorious? -- Andre Vltchek
The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism. -- Hosni Mubarak
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure. -- Ahmed Zewail
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For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged. -- Stephane Hessel
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country. -- Cindy Sheehan
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. -- Josephine Baker
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. -- Benazir Bhutto
Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it. -- Mary Landrieu
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy. -- Evan Bayh
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. -- Corazon Aquino
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. -- Robert Greenwald
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran. -- Shirin Ebadi
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy. -- Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words. -- Langston Hughes
True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy. -- Aristotle
. . . 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
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy -- Barack Obama
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. -- Henry David Thoreau
I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily. -- Michael Bloomberg
Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization. -- Mary Parker Follett
Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it -- Mary Landrieu
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights -- Salmon P. Chase

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