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Democracy requires work. ...The more they feel they've got the members Congress on the run, the more energized they become.

— Ralph Nader How The Rats Reformed The Congress (2018)

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We must strive to become good ancestors.

The Good Fight (2004)

Half of democracy is about just showing up.

The Good Fight (2004)

American politicians over the past 25 years have learned to quietly dismiss big rallies, demonstrations, and even temporary occupations, because they have gone nowhere.

How The Rats Reformed The Congress (2018)

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

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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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