Practicing Democracy Project

A collaboration between @Spirit_Practice and @FetzerInstitute, identifying spiritual practices to support democratic values and virtues.

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"No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."

- Marian Anderson

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Rock the #Vote: Watch this Schoolhouse Rock video and take its joyous democratic energy out into the streets. Register to vote (if you haven't already), and check that you are registered in the proper district. Encourage others to do the same.

https://t.co/HAk2HP0C7B

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Read more about this historic day and discover ways to honor it on our website: (4/4)

https://t.co/sO8HgbAPEe

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the #19thAmendment

The U.S. women’s suffrage movement that formally began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 reached its apotheosis in the halls of Congress on this day in 1920 (1/4)

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Most black women—and men—still could not vote because, despite the Fifteenth and now Nineteenth Amendments, their rights were suppressed by #JimCrow laws. Nevertheless, as a landmark legal victory, the Nineteenth Amendment wedged a foot in the door of universal suffrage. (3/4)

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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
— Frederick Douglass, American orator

#quoteoftheday

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Book #Recommendation:

Let the People Pick the President By @jessewegman makes the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.

Read our full book review and find out how to buy a copy here:

https://t.co/3lErPir2Hh

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"A democracy is supposed to reflect the will of the people."

Read our full blog post on the virtual Mass #PoorPeoplesCampaign Assembly and Moral March on Washington from June!

https://t.co/PCdnRPrXMd

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"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic."

— Bell Hooks, American author

#quoteoftheday

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Book #recommendations :

The Politics Industry by @katherinegehl and @MichaelEPorter is an incredibly insightful analysis of the U.S. political system and a call for political innovation.

Read our full review here:
https://t.co/oGMo7Ctk1Y

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“The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.”

— Thomas Paine, American founding father

#quote

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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
— Robert Hutchins, American educational philosopher

#quotes

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"It is in the common good to hold our political differences and the conflicts they create in a way that does not unravel the civic community on which democracy depends."

— Parker J. Palmer, American author, Healing the Heart of Democracy

#quoteoftheday

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"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."

— Thurgood Marshall, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

#quoteoftheday

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"In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty. All are responsible."
— Abraham Joshua Heshel, American-Polish rabbi

#quoteoftheday

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"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic."

— Bell Hooks, American author

#quotes

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"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

— James Baldwin, American novelist

#quotes

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"Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

— @GloriaSteinem in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society."
— Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

#quote

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Slowing Down to Walk Contemplatively

Check out our latest practicing democracy blog for reflections on how taking a contemplative walk can help you practice democracy:

https://t.co/VurTlOApvw

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