If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Elections aren’t just about who votes but who doesn’t vote.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

I vote and I do jury duty.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

I think it’s important to vote.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.