The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.