Ballots Quotes - Page 5

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Political, Voting, Important

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It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

Saeb Erekat

Gun, Violence, Impossible

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One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Mean, Nuisance, Oracles

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Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

Tony Benn

Hands, Giving, People

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Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Neil Kinnock

Fighting, Hands, Rifles

Speech in the House of Commons, October 23, 1986.

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The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.

Ammon Hennacy

Christian, Confused, Men

Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

Ammon Hennacy

Christian, Confused, Men

Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.

Ammon Hennacy

Spiritual, Tired, Effort

Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.249, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

Katsuya Okada

Outcomes, Election, Boxes

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Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the identity of the people we marry. Keeping this in mind, casting a ballot is not just essential - it's practical!

Maria Rubio

Air, People, Voting

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People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

Wayne Pacelle

Fighting, Animal, Years

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When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Benjamin Harrison

Men, Rights, Law

Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

John Bright

Men, Special, Majority

John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

Upton Sinclair

Two, People, Political

Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.236, Open Road Media

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Our military service members put their lives on the line to protect the rights and freedoms of all Americans - yet many still face substantial roadblocks as they attempt to cast their ballots...This legislation begins to right this national disgrace.

John Cornyn

Military, Rights, Lines

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Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

George Will

Thinking, Class, America

"Dems Vs. Wal-Mart". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 14, 2006.

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Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

Florence Luscomb

Real, Economic, Monopoly

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The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

John Monash

Education, Learning, Australia

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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

Ambrose Bierce

Government, Democracy, Boxes

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Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

Orel Hershiser

Different

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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

Thomas Jefferson

Thinking, America, Presidential

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Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.

Wayne Pacelle

Sports, Dog, Fighting

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And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.

Michelle Obama

Talking, People, Voting

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Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

Khem Veasna

Support, Political, Campaigns

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Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

Walter E. Williams

Simple, Tariffs, Blame

Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.209, Hoover Press

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