Dolores Huerta Quotes

The right to vote with no ifs, ands, or buts, that's the key. When the Negroes get that, they'll have every politician, north and south, east and west, kissing their ass, begging for their support.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

This is representative government, and Indians have very little political clout because for the most part, they don't vote. But white ranchers and farmers do vote.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can't afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.

I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change. Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation. It had to serve as the center of the community’s political, economic and social as well as spiritual life; it understood in an intimate way the Biblical call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and challenge powers and principalities

Even though rural people make up only 20 percent of the population, they represent 25 percent of the total votes cast. That is a huge difference…. Rural states get proportionately more power….right in the beginning the system was permanently fixed to maintain this rural, agrarian dominance.

In the Indian community there was always a problem. People could not approach the politicians the right way. They’re not confident.

One goal of empowerment is to gain influence in as many elections as possible.... Beware of plans that pack you into super-minority districts, that ghettoize minorities.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Voters who are neither bound to the great political nor to any of the little sectarian divisions have no means of making their votes available.

Democracy, in any active sense, begins and ends in communities small enough for their members to meet face to face.

Since the poor don’t vote, and the rich are too few to mention, the middle class chooses all by itself who runs the country.

The right to vote is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in the struggle for civil rights.

There is many a powerful voice in politics that represents but a small vote.

It is unquestionably the duty of the industrial classes, by means of the ballot, to speedily take the Government into their own hands, but in doing so to do justice to all.

it is a universal practice in the popular elections in all these states, to give no legal consideration whatsoever to those who do not choose to vote, as against the effect of the votes of those, who do choose to vote. Hence it is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters, who choose to vote, that constitute the political power of the state.

Did it ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

When it comes to children’s issues, children don’t vote.

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.

If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.