We say that if America has
entered the war to make the
world safe for democracy,
she must first make democracy
safe in America. How else is
the world to take America
seriously, when democracy at
home is daily being outraged,
free speech suppressed,
peaceable assemblies broken
up by overbearing and brutal
gangsters in uniform; when
free press is curtailed and
every independent opinion
gagged?
Verily, poor as we are in
democracy, how can we
give of it to the world?
Emma Goldman