Quotes about Voting

The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... 'We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.' So they begin to ask: 'What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Taking heaven seriously, then, means taking suffering seriously, now. Not because we've bought into the myth that we can create a utopia given enough time, technology, and good voting choices, but because we have great confidence that God has not abandoned human history and is actively at work within it, taking it somewhere