Sentences with phrase «people about democracy»

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I thought about how much Americans value democracy and having their voices heard, yet I was perplexed that so few people were speaking out.

More broadly, some people worry about how all this number - crunching will affect democracy, in America and elsewhere.

As usual, the people most agitated about this are the governance mavens with a knee - jerk reaction against anything that undermines shareholder democracy.

Comments made by Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed in February sound mighty relevant in the light of Cambridge Analytica: «It is acutely clear from the groundswell of consumer voices over recent months that people are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of digital on well - being, on democracy — and on truth itself,» Weed said.

In today's discussions about liberalism and its future, Politics of the Person stands to enrich our appreciation of democracy and human rights.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

The footage serves as a plausible facsimile of the war as defined by the Pentagon; it tells viewers nothing about the origins and nature of an enemy that Republicans and Democrats alike have been ignoring for the last ten years, out of deference to the demands of Big Oil and in the hope that a world of six billion people might wake up one morning, consider the odds, and start bowing to Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and the Goddess of Democracy.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

maybe these religious leaders should be thinking about why they tacitly supported arab dictators for so long (and still do) while their own people are rising up for (american style) democracy.

Moreover, the Institute on Religion and Democracy is worried about some of the people who headed the NCC effort and are now in charge of the loot.

But the traditionalist view again lost the day, with the result that the new religious orientation included the separation of church and state (Jefferson and Madison), a democratic faith in the common person (Jacksonian democracy), and acceptance of a new romanticism which brought about a flourishing of the first truly national literature, art, and architecture.

In a democracy, we have every right to be concerned about how people form their beliefs.

People forget about God's democracy.

If his underlying optimism about American democracy is right, it's hard to refuse his invitation to religious people to participate in it.

Though I often blog about those who wish for theocracy over secular democracy ruling the political will of all people — my own life's experience tells me this isn't representative of most Christians.

Nothing about the comedy of democracy (the formal name we give to our republican experiment) is necessary; it is all a luxury of the decision to have a law and to raise up persons to enforce the law.

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

And despite all the wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth about the prolonged Democratic primary season, how can it be a bad thing for democracy (and for Democrats) to have this many people this fired up?

Democracy should be about people being politically active, you can't have a passive democracDemocracy should be about people being politically active, you can't have a passive democracydemocracy.»

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

I mean that democracy postulates not just a demos, the people, about which we debate so much when it comes to the politics of immigration, multiculturalism and assimilation.

To quote Lincoln's Gettysburg Address a democracy is Government of the people, by the people, for the people But how can a democracy function effectively if the population are not educated about...

Professor Cheeseman also writes a regular column for the Sunday Nation, East Africa's most widely read newspaper, and is the founder of Democracy in Africa, a website dedicated to fostering an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy iDemocracy in Africa, a website dedicated to fostering an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy idemocracy in Africa.

One of the great things about democracy is the fact that ordinary people can change history through...

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated that participatory democracy is not quite dead in this country.

The Labour leader offers an innovative politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.

It's one thing to talk about the «Arab Spring» and democracy, but what if the people vote in the «wrong guy», as happened with Hamas in Palestine?

Democracy is about opinions and divergent views which we the people and our traditional leaders so much believe in.

«Charles Rangel has no respect for democracy and is feeding the dysfunction and frustration people feel about politics,» Tasini said in a statement.

«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our courts are working, rule of law is part of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved by decisions by an arm of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.

«All who believe in social justice, in equality and in democracy and are concerned about the future of our children and young people will recognise the need for a change of political direction after the 2015 General Election.»

It is difficult to understand that such people, knowing what they do know, would set about so blatantly to confuse people, and go as far as calling for the overthrow of our democracy?

«Absolutely not, politics and democracy are about, of course, people having different opinions, different views,» she said.

Yesterday the New York Post published a laugher about how some scary poor, mostly brown people and some unions had scraped together $ 221,000 and were spending it to steal all our democracies with a new Zombie ACORN Super PAC.

«Democracy is only feasible when people know something about the candidates.»

«And when they don't get their own way and they don't have full control, they don't accept what democracy is about and respect peoples» first amendment rights.»

The Center for Popular Democracy said three in five American workers — about 75 million people — are paid hourly, with recent job growth mainly in low - wage jobs, often part - time and subject to last - minute scheduling practices.

They have no way of hearing it because this is the thing most people pay attention to, so this is a real shame about our democracy at this point,» said Onondaga County Green Party Chair Howie Hawkins.

It is billed as «a candid conversation about what the shifting demographic landscape means for grassroots movements, political action, and civic engagement; how can we shape our democracy into one that is truly representative of the people being governed?»

Isn't it telling that the people that constantly talk about splits, the people at the heart of the failed and incompetent coup against the Labour membership and internal democracy, and the people constantly trying to undermine the Party in the media (including disgracefully even the S * n) are all on the right of the Party.

Compare that with Parliament, which is always full of people, bustling about, seeking out and sometimes haranguing their elected representatives, accessing and engaging in modern democracy and observing vibrant, but often rough and tumble, debate.

This is democracy and democracy is all about the people.

When asked about former Prime Minister Tony Blair's dealings with the press, he said Mr Blair believed the press made people feel cynical and negative about politics and politicians and thought this was undermining Britain's democracy.

Since we are in a democracy, we want the military authorities to investigate the action of an aide to the governor who moved about with soldiers from one local government to another, intimidating people.

«It's a participatory democracy, so people need to get up and vote, or even better, get up and run for public office instead of just complaining about it.

You know, people sometimes say that when students from China come here and study and they go back, that they are bringing back western ideas, bringing back, you know, values of human rights and democracy, but that's partly true and definitely I have seen a lot of people come back with these kinds of ideas, well others come back and they have had such a negative experience in the United States that they become defensive about the one - party system, they become fans of it in someways.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

«Here's a story that talks about American history and the ideals of American democracy... in a vernacular that speaks to young people, written by a product of New York public education,» Rodin told the New York Times.

We The Voters: 20 Films for the People seeks to inform young people — and anyone else who wants to better understand what's at stake in the current election — about how U.S. democracy People seeks to inform young people — and anyone else who wants to better understand what's at stake in the current election — about how U.S. democracy people — and anyone else who wants to better understand what's at stake in the current election — about how U.S. democracy works.