MJ Hegar Quotes

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

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become candidates.

'Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

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.

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

Working people vote!

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

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

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

It's so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren't able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won't.

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

Those who are outraged will vote.

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.