In June of this year, over 100 faculty members from universities nationwide signed the “Statement of Concern” on the serious threats to the “electoral pillars of American democracy” calling for “urgent corrective federal legislative action.”
“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.” – Jimmy Carter, 39“Education … like democracy, is always in the making, forever incomplete, founded in possibilities.” – Maxine Greene, American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” – Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker, American novelist, short story writer, poet, social activist who in 1982 became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her The Color Purple. “Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep.” – Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Marxist economist, anti-war activist and revolutionary socialist of German and Polish nationality.
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