Quotes About Voting

Voting is a civic sacrament, which should not be exercised carelessly.

The right to vote has and always will remain the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. We must, each and every one of us, continue to protect this sacred right and ensure everyone is afforded the opportunity to vote.

How is it possible that a woman who is unfit to vote should be the mother of, and bring up, a man who is?

[W]e need to build our democracy and our voting system on a rock, the rock of adding a Voting Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that applies to all states and all citizens.

How about laws that make it harder to shoot people and easier to vote?

I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Voting is people power.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driving license age than at voting age.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote — a very different thing.

BALLOT BOX. The altar of democracy.

A mugwump is a man in politics who never votes for anybody, but who is always voting against somebody.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.

Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.

Not voting is not a protest — it is a surrender.

If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Abolish It

If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain.

You can either vote by voting or vote by not voting. If you don't vote, someone else's vote counts more.

Apathy among the Negroes themselves is also a factor. Even where polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

where the ballot-box, more precious than any work in ivory or marble, from the cunning hand of art, has been plundered.

Unlike what neo-liberals say, market and democracy clash at a fundamental level. Democracy runs on the principle of 'one man (one person), one vote'. The market runs on the principle 'one dollar, one vote'.

The difference between our democracy and a dictatorship is that we get to choose the person who is going to screw us.