Democracy in sentence

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He wanted to be a Moses here, he gave us democracy.

He is not a political man, but in this guise he has given us the institution for democracy, from where we can rise.

The question of freedom and democracy must not only have these two options.

They've created parallel, fascist-style legal systems in which migrants have none of the rights that form the basis of a democracy, the alleged foundation of the countries in which they're seeking refuge.

This isn't really the information you need to operate in everyday life and figure out how to participate in this democracy and determine what's going on.

And finally, India has had the deepening of its democracy.

When democracy came to India 60 years back it was an elite concept.

It was a bunch of people who wanted to bring in democracy because they wanted to bring in the idea of universal voting and parliament and constitution and so forth.

But today democracy has become a bottom-up process where everybody has realized the benefits of having a voice, the benefits of being in an open society.

And therefore democracy has become embedded.

It matters because this is a democracy.

And it is important to prove that growth and democracy are not incompatible, that you can have a democracy, that you can have an open society, and you can have growth.

In so doing, the guardians of secular democracy in effect yield the connection between education and values to fundamentalists, who, you can be sure, have no compunctions about using education to further their values: the absolutes of a theocracy.

Meanwhile, the values and voices of democracy are silent.

We are not even on the list when it comes to our responsibility for the health of this democracy.

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

(Speaks Spanish) I was born in a democracy, in a country called Venezuela, which is now a dictatorship.

Now I am a believer in democracy.

So democracy, as difficult as it is, I believe in it.

Now, corruption is devastating to any economy, democracy and the environment.

So, asked in that way, I think it raises great things about parliamentary ideas, democracy, public space, being together, being individual.

Then monarchy had seen off its big challenger, mass democracy, which was seen as a well-intentioned but doomed experiment, just as capitalism has seen off socialism.

Well, I come from the former Soviet Republic of Belarus, which, as some of you may know, is not exactly an oasis of liberal democracy.

So, I'm graduating college and, feeling very idealistic, I decided to join the NGO which actually was using new media to promote democracy and media reform in much of the former Soviet Union.

That is, promote democracy in difficult places where everything else has already been tried and failed.

To put it very simply, the assumption so far has been that if you give people enough connectivity, if you give them enough devices, democracy will inevitably follow.

But, you know, even beyond that, if you think about the logic underlying it, is something I call iPod liberalism, where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

Because what happens is that then you can actually point to this initiative and say, "Well, we are having a democracy.

And here she relates, in the documentary film "Afghan Star," how her friends urged her not to do this and told her that she was leaving them for democracy.

This is India, and of course it's all the more striking because it was four years later that we all applauded the U.S., the oldest democracy in the modern world, more than 220 years of free and fair elections, which took till last year to elect a president or a vice president who wasn't white, male or Christian.

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