Quote#Politics & Power
Democracy has meant to many "natural" rights, "liberty" and…
Quote byMary Parker Follett · 1868–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The New State, 1918, p. 136.
English (original)
Democracy has meant to many "natural" rights, "liberty" and "equality." The acceptance of the group principle defines for us in truer fashion those watchwords of the past. If my true self is the group-self, then my only rights are those which membership in a group gives me.
— Mary Parker Follett
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