Dolores Huerta Quotes

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

We do have some people that have never voted before.

Since too few Americans go to the polls, I say what this country needs is a bobblehead election, where voters will get free bobblehead dolls of their choice when they show up and vote for president.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

Millions of people walk into the voting booth and vote for someone they like.

Get out and vote. If you can't vote, then register other people to vote. Get people to the polls; make sure that people who need to vote can vote.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.