Voter Education Quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

We may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of us all.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man from voting when he is unfit to vote.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency among political elites to distrust the opinions of ordinary people. They are perceived to base their views on dark instincts and unjustified fears, rather than on rational choices. European voters, however, are highly educated, and it is ridiculous to suppose they can be easily fooled or manipulated.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

We need clean candidates. Party A puts up a candidate and he is terribly corrupt. Party B puts up a candidate who is even more corrupt. There is no choice. So I have the Clean Candidate Campaign.

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.