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American Democracy: If you've never gotten a death threat, you're not doing it right.

— Tom Heehler Kansas City Star Guest Essay (2024)

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The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

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The foolish read to escape reality; the wise surrender to it.

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Good writers indulge their audience; great writers know better.

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Fear not the tyrant; fear the tyrant's wake.

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Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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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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