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  1. David Graeber _ The Democracy Project: A

    So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has come up with is to say that violent revolutions can be avoided {and therefore, violent mobs legitimately suppressed} if 'the people' are understood to have the right to challenge the laws through nonviolent civil disobedience.
    book-quoterevolutionsocietypolitics

  2. David Graeber _ The Democracy Project: A

    The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing duly constituted laws. Laws gain their legitimacy from the Constitution. The Constitution gains its legitimacy from something called 'the people.' But how did 'the people' actually grant legitimacy to the Constitution? As the American and French revolutions make clear: basically, through acts of illegal violence. So what gives the police the right to use force to suppress the very thing–a popular uprising–that granted them their right to use force to begin with?
    book-quoterightssocietypolitics

  3. David Graeber _ The Democracy Project: A

    While opposing injustice nonviolently, he {Gandhi} insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.
    book-quoteresistancedemocracyviolence

  4. Edward Gibbon _ The History of the Decline and

    Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.
    book-quotedemocracypopular-sovereignty

  5. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Case for Reparations

    To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
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  6. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ We Were Eight Years in Power:

    We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because we recognize our links to the past--at least when they flatter us. But black history does not flatter American democracy; it chastens it. The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. Black nationalists have always perceived something unmentionable about America that integrationists dare not acknowledge --that white supremacy is not merely the work of hotheaded demagogues, or a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it."
    book-quotehistoryracismwhite-supremacy

  7. Cornel West _ Race Matters

    And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy {p. 107}.
    book-quotepovertyracedemocracy

  8. Cornel West _ Black Prophetic Fire

    It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
    book-quoteinspirationhumanityempowerment

  9. W.E.B. Du Bois _ The Souls of Black Folk

    The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,-criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led,-this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.
    book-quotedemocracy

  10. W.E.B. Du Bois _ Black Reconstruction in

    IX. THE PRICE OF DISASTERThe price of the disaster of slavery and civil war was the necessity of quickly assimilating into American democracy a mass of ignorant laborers in whose hands alone for the moment lay the power of preserving the ideals of popular government; of overthrowing a slave economy and establishing upon it an industry primarily for the profit of the workers. It was this price which in the end America refused to pay and today suffers for that refusal.
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  11. Aberjhani _ Splendid Literarium: A

    Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community."
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  12. Aberjhani _ Illuminated Corners: Collected

    The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.
    book-quoteracismhappinessfreedom
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