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James Baldwin and Margaret Mead on Reimagining Democracy for a Post-Consumerist Culture – The Marginalian

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“Democracy should not mean the leveling of everyone to the lowest common denominator. It should mean the possibility of everyone being able to raise himself to a certain level of excellence.&…

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