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— Mary Parker Follett"The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows."
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There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.
— Al Gore
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What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.
— Rex Stout
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