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The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?  (Direct Democracy Quotes) Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!  (Direct Democracy Quotes) I’m all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don’t favor direct democracy. We’re busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov’t must make all the time?  (Direct Democracy Quotes) We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that’s enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.  (Direct Democracy Quotes) I don’t support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.  (Direct Democracy Quotes) The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth...  (Direct Democracy Quotes) When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that’s a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.  (Direct Democracy Quotes) Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people  (Direct Democracy Quotes) I don’t want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don’t have direct democracy.  (Direct Democracy Quotes) America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don’t. We are a representative republic. We’re not a direct democracy.  (Direct Democracy Quotes) Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens  (Direct Democracy Quotes) I don’t support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me  (Direct Democracy Quotes)