Democratic Ideals Quotes

• Durante mi vida me he dedicado a esta lucha del pueblo africano. He luchado contra la dominación blanca y contra la dominación negra. He acariciado el ideal de una sociedad democrática y libre en la que todas las personas convivan en armonía y con igualdad de oportunidades. Es un ideal por el que espero vivir y alcanzar. Pero si es necesario, es un ideal por el que estoy dispuesto a morir.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiración, Inspiración, Éxito

  FaceBook post byNelson Mandela from abr 20, 2014

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• Los jefes no son más inevitables en los gobiernos estatales y locales que los dictadores en los gobiernos nacionales. No obstante, surgirán y prosperarán si los verdaderos creyentes en la democracia -ciudadanos devotos de los ideales democráticos- no se oponen constantemente a ellos.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Boss, Democracy

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• He acariciado el ideal de una sociedad democrática y libre en la que todas las personas convivan en armonía y con igualdad de oportunidades.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sabiduría, oportunidad, igualdad

  Declaración en el juicio, Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, 20 de abril de 1964

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• The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

  Whitney M. Young

  Practice, America, Foundation

  Whitney M. Young (1964). "Ser iguales"

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• Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

  John Dewey

  Two, Liberty, Phases

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.78, SIU Press

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• Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

  Thomas Piketty

  Luck, Inheritance, Merit

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Tal vez nuestra ambición nacional de estandarizarnos tenga detrás la noción de que democracia significa estandarización. Pero la normalización es la forma más segura de destruir la iniciativa, de aniquilar el impulso creativo por encima de todo, esencial para la vitalidad y el crecimiento de los ideales democráticos.

  Ida Tarbell

  Ambition, Mean, Creative

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• Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

  Randal Marlin

  Exercise, Lips, Needs

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.13, Broadview Press

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• The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.

  Saul Alinsky

  Loyalty, Spring, Rights

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage

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• El ideal democrático siempre ha estado relacionado con un nivel moderado de desigualdad. Creo que una de las principales razones por las que la democracia electoral floreció mejor en los Estados Unidos del siglo XIX que en Europa es que la distribución de la riqueza era más equitativa.

  Thomas Piketty

  Thinking, Europe, America

  "El economista francés Thomas Piketty compara la economía de EE.UU. con la de Europa en la Edad Dorada". Entrevista de The Associated Press, www.oregonlive.com. 23 de abril de 2014.

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Justice

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• La aspiración moral y social propia de la vida americana es, por supuesto, la aspiración vagamente descrita por la palabra democrática; y los logros reales de la nación americana apuntan hacia una definición adecuada y fructífera del ideal democrático.

  Herbert Croly

  Swag, Achievement, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2005). "The Promise of American Life", p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Might, Use

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• He escrito un libro titulado "Islam: los retos de la democracia", porque es un reto. Requiere una interpretación cuidadosa de la tradición islámica y de la teología islámica, y hay mucho en ella que apoyaría los ideales democráticos.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Book, Islamic, Support

  "The Great Theft". Interview with Melanie Colburn, www.motherjones.com. November 18, 2005.

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• The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Thinking, Triumph

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

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• Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Democracy, Cherish, Easy

  Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, delivered 23 January 2008, Davos, Switzerland

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• The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

  John Dewey

  May, Execution, Tragic

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.75, 谷月社

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• It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, School, Trying

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