"Voting is a civic sacrament."-- Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.
"Only votes talk, everything else walks."
-- Dan Rather
“To make democracy work, we must be a notion of
participants, not simply observers. One who
does not vote has no right to complain."
participants, not simply observers. One who
does not vote has no right to complain."
-- Louis L'Amour
"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."
devised by man for breaking down injustice and
destroying the terrible walls which imprison men
because they are different from other men."
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
This last quote would be more inspirational if the reader is unfamiliar with Robert Caro's biographies of LBJ... but those are stories for another day.
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