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Representations of Democracy in Literature, History and Film

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.04.01

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Dissent in Democracy: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm

Jonathan Aubin

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free . . . ¹
From “New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus (written, 1883, inscribed in bronze at the
foot of The Statue of Liberty, 1903)

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. ²
Jane Addams

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing. ³
Edmund Burke

There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part; and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all. ⁴
Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I’m of it. While there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ⁵
Eugene V. Debs

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