If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Interpretation
Increased voter participation among American women could lead to improved funding for programs that support women and children.
Coretta Scott King emphasizes the power of voter turnout among women in America, suggesting that a small increase in participation could significantly influence political decisions and funding for important social programs. Her statement underscores the importance of collective action and the impact that women voters have on shaping policies that directly affect their lives and the lives of children.
In practice
In a speech about civic engagement, this quote could inspire women to vote.
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
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People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
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