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Tue 8 Sep 2020

Medgar

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, democracy, patriotism, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The Negro has been here in America since 1619….He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home…Let me appeal to the consciences of many silent, responsible citizens of the white community who know that a victory for democracy in Jackson will be a victory for democracy everywhere.”

—Medgar Evers, speech, WLBT radio, Jackson Mississippi, May 20, 1963
(Less than a month later, Medgar Evers was gunned down in his driveway by a white supremacist in front of his wife and children.)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 22 Jul 2020

Elite

Posted by PJ under democracy, poverty, quote of the day, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“This country has always been run by elite, and it’s an elitist democracy. And that’s not a radical concept. It’s elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don’t talk—really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.”

—Danny Glover, Democracy Now! August 28, 2008

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Mon 20 Jul 2020

Dictator

Posted by PJ under democracy, dictators, leadership, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We call them strongmen because that’s their goal, is to appear strong. But actually there is so much more strength in the willingness to lead a true democracy. You are strong because you can hear dissent. And it is not strong to gas people and to stand in front of a building with a bible. That’s not strength, that is a performance.”

—Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, interview, CBS News, June 7, 2020

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Wed 7 Sep 2016

Democracy

Posted by PJ under democracy, government, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.”

—Harry Truman, speech to joint session of the U.S. Congress, March 12, 1947

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Mon 20 May 2013

Declination of independence

Posted by PJ under apathy, democracy, government, ignorance, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Few Americans are educated in the ways government works—or does not work—and our passivity, our downright apathy, in the face of the headlong retreat from democracy in this country makes us wonder if perhaps the late Max Lerner was not right: We are a civilization in decline without ever having reached its zenith.”

—Edward Albee, “Humans: the artsy animals,” Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2006

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