Political Equality Quotes

Arabs will participate on an equal footing throughout all sectors of the country’s public life….In every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab and vice versa.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few

The Manners of Women, are the surest Criterion by which to determine whether a Republican Government is practicable in a Nation or not.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

Democracy really depends not only on not just having a middle class but having wealth distributed relatively evenly across the society so that people buy into the legitimacy of the system

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].

Anything is possible for women, including being a presidential nominee.

There can be no socialism without democracy.

A woman running for President. There is not a thing in the Constitution to prohibit it. I cannot vote but I can be voted for.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure, deformity. When they assembled, the field of debate presented an ungovernable mob, not only incapable of deliberation, but prepared for every enormity.

Woman suffrage has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

A true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

Democracy is a value in itself. It doesn't have to be defended [justified] any more than freedom has to be defended.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.