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It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. And why not? Who knew American democracy more intimately than the Negro people? They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
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The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
If men are to remain civilized, or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars, and whether they had one, or not, upon thars. -- Dr. Seuss
The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. -- Sheryl Sandberg
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Their goal wasn’t to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talent. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
The day they decided that Sneetches were Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. -- Dr. Seuss
