In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.