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There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.