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.
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that βthe 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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