Barack Obama Quotes

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

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.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

Keep so much suffrage noise going all over the country so that neither the enemy nor friends will discover where the real battle is.

The Ballot or the Bullet

Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.

People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.

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.

Citizens should never allow themselves to be silenced.