Nina Turner Quotes

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Your vote is your voice.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

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.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

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

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

There are different ways to get responsive government leaders but one of the more effective ways is to have them democratically elected.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The function of a parliamentary democracy, under universal suffrage, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attacks of the people.

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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

A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod ;, But executes a freeman’s will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force, nor doors nor locks Can shield you;—’tis the ballot box.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.