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1. Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no
good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. EMERSON,
Journals, 1854.
2. Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except
the American people themselves and the only way they could do that is by
not voting. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, radio address, Oct. 5, 1944.
3. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man,
walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross
on a little bit of paper no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion
can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point. SIR WINSTON
CHURCHILL, speech, House of Commons, Oct.31, 1944.
4. A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand. HENRY
WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887).
5. Where the annual elections end, there slavery begins. JOHN ADAMS,
Thoughts on Government (1776).
6. The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for
breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison
men because they are different from other men. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, address
on signing the voting rights bill, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 1965.
7. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power
over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and
senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this
country. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, speech, Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
8. Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, message to Congress, July 7, 1861.
9. Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only
protection of poor against rich and black against white. W.E. B. DU BOIS,
"We Return Fighting," In Their Own Words: 19161966, v.3.
10. The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
LEARNED HAND, speech, Washington, D.C., March 8, 1932.
11. The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY, address, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., May 18,
1963.
12. Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger
without putting it to the test of fighting. H. L. MENCKEN, Minority Report
(1956), 312.
13. No Voter in the World ever voted for nothing; in some way he has been
convinced that he is to get something for that vote. His vote is all that
our Constitution gives him, and it goes to the highest bidder. WILL ROGERS,
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), 14.
14. Too many good men and women have left their homes and loved ones,
fighting perilous battles to preserve this right; too many good men and
women have left their broken bodies as sacrifice at the alter of freedom;
we must do our duty today, and vote. Please.
G. Matthew Bulley
Principal
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
Communications for Organizational Development
www.bulleyhewlett.com
(888) 468-4880 toll free
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