Frederick Douglass Quotes

I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Your vote is your voice.

Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

The very act of voting is a political act.

Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?

You gotta fight for your right to vote!

Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If you don't vote, you don't count.

I vote and I do jury duty.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

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.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?