40 Quotes About Voting-rights

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Resistance isn’t enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.

When it's easier to buy a cache of assault weapons than cast a vote — expect massacres to be the norm.

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.

Voting is a right and if you do not want to exercise that right, who am I or who is anyone to tell you that you are wrong.

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!

We must arise and build the nation.