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“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: apathy, democracy, elections, voting

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“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed

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“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, liberation, love, marxism, peace, radicalism, socialism, theology

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“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, democracy, dissent, law, protest, truth-telling

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“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: capitalism, democracy, fascism

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