„To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world.“

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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„Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.“
— Gloria Steinem
„Modern democracies have been around long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy—the 'independent' judiciary, the 'free' press, the parliament—and moulding them to their purpose.“
— Arundhati Roy
„When in 1909 our battlefleet returned from its voyage around the world, Admirals Wainwright and Schroeder represented the best traditions and the most effective action in our navy; one was of old American blood and of English descent; the other was the son of German immigrants. But one was not a native-American and the other a German-American. Each was an American pure and simple. Each bore allegiance only to the flag of the United States. Each would have been incapable of considering the interests of Germany or of England or of any other country except the United States.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.“
— Richard Bach