Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=MyfeAwAAQBAJ&q=%22No+democracy+can+long+survive+which+does+not+accept+as+fundamental+to+its+very+existence+the+recognition+of+the+rights+of+its+minorities%22&pg=PA401#v=onepage to Walter Francis White, president of the NAACP (25 June 1938)
1930s
“Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.”
Reported in Alpheus Thomas Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law (1956), p. 95.
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“No democracy can survive without a thriving middle class and entrepreneurs are our job creators.”
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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
As quoted in A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages (2003) by Linda Pendleton.
“Freedom of the press—a way to peace,” ASNE Bulletin (February 1989), p. 27. ASNE stands for the American Association of Newspaper Editors
“Without discipline true freedom cannot survive. Quoted in The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah”
“I genuinely feel that the survival of this country lies in democracy and democracy alone.”
As quoted in "Mohammad Zia ul-Haq : Unbending Commander for Era of Atom and Islam" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2D71239F93BA2575BC0A96E948260, The New York Times (18 August 1988).
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 177