Jill Stein Quotes

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

Why wouldn't somebody have the same legal rights as everybody else in our society? What is that about? I don't even understand them putting same sex marriage on the ballot. So if fifty-one percent of the people say it shouldn't happen, it's not going to happen? You can get fifty-one percent of the people to say just about anything - to say let's bring back slavery, or all Mexicans should be slaves, or something absolutely crazy like that. Does that mean we do it?

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

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.

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

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.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

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.

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.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: T'is but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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

Your vote is your voice.

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

You’ve got the strongest hand in the world, the hand that marks the ballot, the hand that pulls the voting lever. Use it, will ya? Use it!”

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

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.