It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the contrast between the struggles for voting rights globally and the apathy towards voting in the U.S.
Moby's quote reflects a deep concern for the value of democratic participation and the stark reality that, while many people across the world fight for the basic right to vote, others in places like America take this privilege for granted and choose to abstain from voting. It serves as a poignant reminder of the importance of exercising one's rights and the sacrifices made by others to secure them.
In practice
In a speech emphasizing civic responsibility, a speaker might cite this quote to encourage voter turnout.
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
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And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
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The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.
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