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.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust
Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
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