Voting Quotes - Page 22

• Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Roots, Land

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college? Why do you keep voting for these guys?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, College

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 09, 2015.

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• Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.

  David Limbaugh

  Teaching, Army, People

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• Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Ecosystems, America

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• It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Rights, Justice

  "Henry Rollins: Misguided Outrage Over DOMA’s Demise" by Henry Rollins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.

  George Packer

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Why aren't Democrats voting against President [Donald] Trump's cabinet nominees en masse? Is it because they're just a bunch soft-headed Beltway lifers who don't understand that the base is pissed and wants them to fight fight fight?

  Kevin Drum

  Fighting, President, Want

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• I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have been running the countries for years. They are severely declining. You can see it in voting; you can see it also in popular attitudes: contempt for what are called "the élites," the experts, the people in charge.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, Attitude

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Demographics, Percent, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

  Barack Obama

  School, Voice, People

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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• All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.

  Audie Cornish

  Machines, Use, Voters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking of a young couple. They had two kids. They described themselves as Christian. They oppose gay marriage. And they were saying that even though they didn't like Donald Trump, they were thinking of voting for him. And one of the reasons was they felt that they were - their very views were making them socially unacceptable. They were feeling a little alienated from the world.

  Steve Inskeep

  Christian, Couple, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Land, Democracy

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Slave Owners, Giving

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Rights, White Man

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

  Kerry Washington

  Trump

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• Remember, we could solve this in a heartbeat with ranked-choice voting. The Democrats won't pass it. This allows you to rank your choices and eliminates the intimidation and the fear. They won't pass it; I know because I helped file the bill. Sixteen years ago in Massachusetts they could have solved the spoiler problem. They won't do it because they rely on fear. The fact that they rely on fear tells you something very important. They are not on your side. For that reason alone, they do not deserve your vote.

  Jill Stein

  Years, Your Side, Choices

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

  Bill Mollison

  Rolling, World, Way

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little incentive to take care in carefully considering what your vote would mean.

  Jason Brennan

  Mean, Differences, Incentives

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.

  Noam Chomsky

  Xenophobia, Roots, White

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

  Barack Obama

  America, Presidential, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.

  Michael Lind

  Wall, Military, Wings

  Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com

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• When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Government, Rights

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Feet, Yesterday

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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