America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.
Interpretation
Democracy should start within a nation's own borders before advocating for it elsewhere.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of practicing democracy internally before promoting it abroad. He argues that it is hypocritical for American leaders to call for free elections in other countries while failing to ensure that free and fair elections are upheld in their own nation, highlighting a critical inconsistency in their political stance.
In practice
During a political debate about election integrity, one might quote this to emphasize the need for domestic reform.
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.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
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