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Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
Boots Riley / Poet
Democracy
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I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
Mohammed Morsi / Former President Of Egypt
Egyptian
Firsts
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Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.
Asma Jahangir / Lawyer
Bad People
Human Rights
Good Always Fight
Good Fight Bad
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
Daniel Ek / Entrepreneur
Musician
Spotify
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Winning
Best Music Your
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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
Twyla Tharp / Dancer
Dance
Dancing
Done
Honestly
Thinking
Dances
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Morally
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Roe v. Wade used raw judicial power to overturn the democratically passed laws in every state in the country and remove state restrictions on abortion.
Mercedes Schlapp /
Abortion
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Wade
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Overturn
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Roe
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Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.
David Olusoga /
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If you attack our democratically elected representatives, you attack our institutions, all our people and our sovereignty, and we will never allow that.
Jordi Cuixart /
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Sovereignty
People Will Never
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Elected
Our People
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It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.
Jeremy Corbyn / Politician
Defence
Parliament
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Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos / President Of Angola
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Price
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Regardless of their religious observance, citizens can and should unite around universal human rights and freedoms, and democratically oppose those who violate them.
Fethullah Gulen / Preacher
Human Rights
Observance
Human Human Rights Rights
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Oppose
Regardless
Unite
Violate
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I think that social media platforms and technology have been the accelerator for the push for the populist-style administrations in democratically elected presidents.
Maria Ressa / Journalist
Administration
Media
Platforms
Social Media
Accelerator
Technology Social Media Media
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Push
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Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.
Marianne Williamson / Author
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Innocent
Bow
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When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.
Matt Gonzalez / American Politician
Etc
Iran
Vietnam
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Topple
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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
Jose Saramago / Writer
Accepting
Difficult
Election
Incapable
People
People Will Who
Understand
Elections
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Referendum
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In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.
Greg Grandin /
Underwear
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Forced
Photographed
Strip
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
Hamid Karzai / President Of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
America
Congressman
Internal Affairs
Talking
United States
United States Of America
Affairs
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Divide
Elected
Ethnic
Interfering
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Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.
Nick Lampson / Former U.s. Representative
Ascendancy
Democracy
Human Rights
Legislature
President
Rights
Taiwan
Democratically
Moreover
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A lot of discussions and debates happen in our party. Isn't it good to have a democratically run party rather than a dynastic one? So obviously, discussions do happen, and they are for the good.
Nirmala Sitharaman /
Debates
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Discussions
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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
Tim Berners-Lee / Computer Scientist
Computers
Vision
Democratically
Ideal
Promote
Reflect
Such A Way
Web
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So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
Lawrence Lessig / Political Activist
Culture
Ideas
People
Accept
Democratically
Develop
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The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.
Greg Grandin /
Chile
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Well Known
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Salvador
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People have to remember that the armed forces do as democratically elected governments tell them to do. They don't arbitrarily go into countries and kick off. These are decisions that are made by our politicians.
Clive Lewis /
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Armed
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It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
European Union
Scotland
Democratically
Indefensible
Union
Prospect
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Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
Nick Davies /
Abuse
Plot
Prime Minister
Wander
Dared
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Owner
Minister
Newspaper
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In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
Ismail Haniyeh / Former Prime Minister Of The Palestinian National Authority
Leadership
Government
Compelled
Israel
Notion
Rivalry
Want
Addition
Claiming
Democratically
Dispel
Elected
Palestinians
Removing
Sow
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Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.
James Gleick / Author
Computers
Closed Doors
Corporate
Doors
Emerging
Operations
Agencies
Centers
Closed
Democratically
Habits
Linking
Strangely
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Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.
Joan Kirner / Former Premier Of Victoria
Favour
You Can Do It
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The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
Dick Cheney / Former Vice President Of The United States
Fit
Friendly
Gas
Lord
Oil
Regimes
United States
Considered
Choose
Democratically
Elected
Good Lord
Normally
Occasionally
Operate
Places
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Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.
Ana Navarro /
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Sake
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Most Important Thing
Precious
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
Yochai Benkler / Author
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Administrative
Legitimacy
Precedent
Professionalism
Accountable
Agencies
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Distinguish
Politicians
Judges
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From my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.
William Barr /
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Norms
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In Georgia, where I spend much time, the democratically elected pro-western President Mikhail Saakashvili has been beleaguered by a riotous opposition which proposes creating a constitutional monarchy under the Bagrationi dynasty, with a Spanish racing driver, Prince 'Jorge' Bagrationi, as king.
Simon Sebag-Montefiore / Journalist
Dynasty
Georgia
Monarchy
Racing
Constitutional
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Driver
Proposes
Spanish
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From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.
Hisham Matar / Writer
Caught
Criminals
Cynical
Defeated
Humiliate
Loyal
Ruthless
Accountable
Arabs
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Dictators
Elected
Oppress
Powers
Ruled
Seemingly
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Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.
Greg Grandin /
Critical
Involvement
Peacock
Prime
Prime Minister
Tehran
Coup
Democratically
Elected
Greatly
Histories
Joint
Minister
Rightly
Throne
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A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented to companies through public tender, with or without subsidies, and a rising share of profits beyond a negotiated upper limit should be deposited in the national capital fund.
Guy Standing /
Alaska
Drilling
Fund
Norway
Rising
Share
Subsidies
Area
Beyond
Capital
Companies
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Governed
Limit
National
Perhaps
Profits
Similar
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