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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Check all other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.
Embed:Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.
Citation
Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:
MLA Style Citation
"Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sat. 02 Nov. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/America-must-begin-the-struggle-for-democracy-863704>.
Check out
Other quotes of Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
Other quotes you may like
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.