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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.