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“Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children. The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”

– Former President George W. Bush

“Our collective voice in this hour must always be louder than the voice of one who may speak sometimes representing these United States, whose words sometimes do not reflect that legacy of my father.”

– Rev. Bernice King

"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

– Hubert H. Humphrey

“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, 'I, the president.' It begins with, 'We, the people.”

– Gloria Steinem

“Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.”

– John Lewis

“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.”

– Aldous Huxley

“He appears to be taking pages from the Hitler Nazi playbook and using them in this production to divide Americans and engage in tribalism... And he’s succeeding to a certain extent.”

– Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens

“Doctors should now turn their efforts to the fight against the looming threat of a second Trump term as hard as we advocate for the needs of our patients every day. Trump’s return to the White House would be one of the greatest threats to our patients’ well-being that we have ever faced. Patients deserve to be able to see a doctor when they need to, not just when they can afford to.”

– Rob Davidson

“Minority Leader McConnell Says President Trump 'Practically and Morally Responsible' for January 6 Attack on Capitol.”

– C-SPAN

“The classic definition of fascism is a mix of authoritarian rule, crackdown on dissent and independent media, erosion of personal liberties, private militia type groups, marriage of capitalism and the state, toxic masculinity, conservative religion, longing for a fabled, imagined ‘past’ when things were grand, and at least one if not more identified subhuman enemies to be obliterated. Trump and his supporters have all of these. And a feature that is contemporary: continuing policies that ignore and/or worsen the environmental crisis.”

– Roger S. Gottlieb, William B. Smith Dean’s Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

“Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly.”

- Alyssa Farah Griffin