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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Riverside Sermons (1958)

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

On Being a Real Person (1943)

The present world situation smells to heaven!

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Living Under Tension (1941)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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