Mo Ibrahim Quotes

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

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.

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

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

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.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

Too many people are voting.

The danger of democracy has always been the danger of an electorate seized by passivity.

One of the things about the electoral system in the United States, in general, is that it is very susceptible to class. In poorer neighborhoods you are going to have a lower turnout. This country is very much a middle-class country. When you're talking about poor or working-class people, there are not many vehicles for mobilizing them.

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

Elections are always about turnout.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for president. One hopes it is the same half

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

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