Malcolm X Quotes

The reach of the individual campaigner doesn’t add up to diddly-squat in votes.

If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.

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

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

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Governments are sails, the people is the wind, the state is the boat, and time is the sea.

It is no exaggeration to say that undecided voters could go either way.

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.

The media coverers Rush Limbaugh as if he were the king of the Republican Party. The truth of the matter is that he can’t deliver a pizza let alone a vote.

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

GDP has effectively become a proxy for national success or failure. It has the power to decide elections, overthrow governments, and launch popular movements.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

The vote controls everything that you do.

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.

Whether you're Democrat or Republican... you want everybody who's eligible to vote to vote, and that's how you want to win elections.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

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

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

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

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.