Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

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

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

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

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

We should make election day a national holiday.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

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.

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

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.

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

I feel like this idea of strategic voting has not allowed people to dream big.

What's sad is that we can have a reality-television performer for president without incorporating the other aspects of reality television - like voting and voter engagement.

The very act of voting is a political act.

Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.

Get out and vote. If you can't vote, then register other people to vote. Get people to the polls; make sure that people who need to vote can vote.

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

If we don't register and don't vote, national leaders will not be aware of our point of view.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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.