Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

You have a voice, you have a vote. Use it.

I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

The very act of voting is a political act.

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

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

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

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.

A man may be voted a bore or shunned as a pest, and yet he must be accorded the rights to which he is entitled by virtue of being a representative of the people.

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

Your vote is your voice.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

I know how illusory would be the belief that my vote determined anything; but nevertheless when I go to the polls I have a satisfaction in the sense that we are all engaged in a common venture.