Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

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.

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

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

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.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

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 citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

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

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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

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

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

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

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.