Both Uses
democracy
in
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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- Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.†
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- 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 what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(democracy) a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)