James Baldwin's Words Like Freedom, Justice, And Democracy

1. The American novelist James Baldwin wrote, "Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply." Do you think you know what the words (freedom, justice, and democracy) mean? How did you derive your own meaning for these words?
First, I have to disagree with James Baldwin in regards to "freedom" being an abstract unbeknownst to humans from the moment they are born. All people have intrinsic freedom. I put this forward because social order is not a natural phenomenon; civilization and its laws are entirely man-made. Freedom, in its most undiluted form, is synonymous with chaos. This is why people willingly give up their freedoms: to offer general order, certainty and predictability in society. In other words, humans relinquish their freedoms and restict the freedoms

From my understanding, justice is the essence of being fair, reasonable, and moral. Realistically, justice, is a romanticized impossibility. This is primarily because there is a weak consensus concerning what is fair and what is moral.
Most would define democracy as a system of government which, directly or indirectly, grants the people of a society ultimate power. Direct democracy might seem ideal, but it often leads to mob rule where the minority parties are vastly underrepresented. This is primarily why Americans elect representatives. Still, the American voting system is not without its imperfections. For example, in America, voting is not treated as a skill, it is treated as a moral obligation. Because of this, ill informed, uneducated, irrational or otherwise uninterested people are encouraged to involve themselves politically.
2. What do you think are the most important reasons for low public trust in government? How could public trust in government be