Famous quotes containing the word democratic:
“... the black woman can never forgethowever lukewarm the party may to-day appearthat it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“Thats free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thingthe truly democratic thing about itis that you dont even have to be a player to lose.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“He rejected, if he did not despise, democratic principles; advocated a government as strong, almost, as a monarchy.... He believed in authority, and he had no faith in the aggregate wisdom of masses of men.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)