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In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

— Nawal El Saadawi

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

— Peggy Noonan

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.

— Rory Stewart

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

— Fisher Ames

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

✗Opposing Perspectives

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr.