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Democracy Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 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…
- What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
- Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
- Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
- One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for…
- The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in…
- We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the…
- This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of…
- We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people…
- We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our…
- The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths…
- Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
- Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation…
- Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.
More Democracy Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood