A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The London police have discovered that the best way to neuter demonstrations is not to move everyone on, or disperse troublemakers, but hold them close, cordon them into a diminishing space for hours and hours, as a sort of arbitrary al fresco arrest.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.