Why is democracy important to the Greeks?

The Greek word "democracy" ("the power of the people") was invented by the Athenians to define a system of government of the city in which decisions were made by the assembly of citizens (the citizens were neither women nor slaves nor foreigners) and not by a king or emperor as in other cities.

the values of the selma marchers was to bring   their ability to vote into law. mlk was not hat march, which was protesting toward lbj