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"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations." -- reformer Noam Chomsky
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"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, a Nazi death camp survivor
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"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease." -- blind, deaf thinker Helen Keller (1880-1968)
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"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.... Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests." -- philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002), A Theory of Justice
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"No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one." -- journalist George Seldes (1890-1995)
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"Those who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak." -- Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle
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"If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game -- bzzzzz -- thanks for playing Extreme Capitalism." -- comic Marc Maron, Attempting Normal
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"Democracy is" a dynamic way of life that encourages efforts to make society and government always better. The democrat believes that human nature is improved as man's environment is perfected". The democrat recognizes all the world's people as his brothers, equally good and equally deserving". The democrat believes in international cooperation and a peaceful world." -- West Virginia State University Dean Edwin Hoffman, Pathways to Freedom, 1964
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