Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
Interpretation
Voting is essential for participating in democracy and effecting change.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the crucial role of voting in a democratic society. It conveys that exercising the right to vote is fundamental for individuals to take part in political processes, influencing decisions that affect their lives and communities.
In practice
In a political rally to encourage civic engagement.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.
Mr. President, youβre entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
By virtually every metric, the liberal international order has made the world healthier, wealthier, wiser, more secure and more tolerant than it has ever been.
A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.
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