Lionel Sosa Quotes

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Rich people are powerful in wealth but few in votes.

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.

I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

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.

Politicians do not like to alienate voters no matter how lofty the goals.

Add to the voting constituency [of New York State] one million educated women who can read and write the English language. Then women will be respected, for power always commands respect.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Get elected.

The laboring man in this bounteous and hospitable country has no ground for complaint. His vote is potential and he is elevated thereby to the position of a man.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.

With our increased birthrates the black man and woman can actually breed ourselves into power.

Voting rights and free speech are of little value to those with neither the education nor economic clout to make them meaningful.

We must demonstrate our power by exercising our right to vote.

In times not long gone by, the higher and richer classes were in complete possession of the government. Their power was the master grievance of the country. The habit of voting at the bidding of an employer, or of a landlord, was so firmly established, that hardly anything was capable of shaking it

I should never have had votes enough to send me here [to the White House], if the people had supposed I should try to use my veto power to upset slavery.

Such is the boasted chivalry of the Land of Freedom, which has left its women to strive against tradition, prejudice, conservatism, self-interest, political power and in addition all the forces of corruption combined, to secure the privilege which was conferred upon vast numbers of men who never even demanded it and many of whom knew nothing of its significance after it was granted.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage…

More and more, the Negro vote is becoming the decisive power in National politics. The Negro vote is the balance of power in so many important big states that one almost has to have the Negro vote to win a Presidential election.

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.

Latino voters are American voters. When we vote, we remember who stood against us.

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

Possibly the presence of women as voters would tend still further to promote order than has been done by the ballot …. If men choose to say that women are not their equals, women have nothing to do but to give in. Physical force, the ultimate basis of all society and all government, must be on the side of the men; and those who have the key of the position will not consent permanently to abandon it.

No president … has ever quarreled with Congress as a whole, or with either chamber, without being backed by the people. The great body of voters hate what they regard as an unequal fight, and may always be trusted to side with the one man as against the many; with the public servant whom they have jointly elected, as against any number of public servants chosen to represent fractional parts of the Union.

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.

The primary effect of the campaign was to reinforce the party affliation of most of the voters. Individuals tended to expose themselves to the propaganda of their own party more than to the progaganda of the other party.