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Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Gloria Steinem
Democracy, Mob Rule, Income

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Gloria Steinem
Self Esteem, Democracy, Bases
Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.1145, Open Road Media

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

Gloria Steinem
Numbers, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy
Source: bluestockingsmag.com

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

Gloria Steinem
Country, Military, Democracy
Source: www.washingtontimes.com

I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

Gloria Steinem
Years, Support, Democracy

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