Quotes About Representation

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

Be proud of who you are & who you represent.You are unique, there is no other exactly like you.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

sometimes … sometimes you have to tell them who you are. What you really think. You have to make them see us.

How could I get up there in public and act like I'm some representative of the class? I can't even go to college like the rest of them. I don't even know where I'm going to live. That's not right. That's not who the valedictorian is.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?

Sometimes an owl is just an owl.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

The death penalty is almost universally a punishment for the poor, for those without the money to get competent counsel. The adage remains true about the death penalty: "Those without the capital get the punishment.

For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States Constitution, was illegitimate, since it lacked direct popular voting. "In theory the fundamental Law should have been more completely the people's law .

should be to assemble not only a newsroom that might resemble the community but also one that is as open and honest so that this diversity can function.

This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply.