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  • To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

    Love   Peace   Giving  
    "Fragment of a Speech" ca. 18 May 1858.
  • Certain kinds of typeface design and typographic design are designed to persuade: we can make this company look modern if we use a crisp sans serif typeface, or we can make this restaurant look like its been around forever if we use typefaces and layout styles that have been around forever too. But there are other categories, and ballot design is one of them, where the goal should be to be purely functional. There have been notable failures in this category.

    Goal   Forever   Design  
    Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
  • The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

    Peers   Stuff   Exciting  
    Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.
  • We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.

    Strong   Order   America  
    Source: thechurchladyblogs.com
  • It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!

    Kings   Moon   Land  
    Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books
  • We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

    People   Suffering   Deny  
    Source: www.democracynow.org
  • 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

    Two   America   Twenties  
    "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.
  • 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.

    Talking   People   Voting  
  • Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

  • When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?

    Flower   Men   Garden  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub
  • The idea that Hispanics or women or any other group of people think alike, vote alike? That's what Democrats want. They want mind-numbed robots who all think alike and who all vote alike. It's easy! You dumb them down, you get rid of critical thinking, and you just have a blob, basically, out there of people that look for the D on the ballot and pull the lever.

    Thinking   Ideas   People  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • The message that I am conveying to President Trump, to the Cabinet, to leaders in both Houses is real simple. Let's do what we promised. Let's deliver on the promises and if we do that, we'll win at the ballot box and if we don't, the people will hold us accountable for that too.

    Real   Winning   Simple  
    Source: time.com
  • Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

  • We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.

    Names   People   Voting  
    Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
  • I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

    Mind   Alarms   Watches  
    Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”
  • 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 (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • The ballot is the only safety.

    Safety   Ballots  
    Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.460, Digital Scanning Inc
  • Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

  • The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

    Law   Georgia   Ballots  
  • So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

    Home   Giving   Lazy  
    FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”
  • In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

    Hands   People   Anarchy  
    Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr
  • I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

    Hate   Thinking   People  
  • A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of late-night talk shows. And California passed Proposition 21. That would change guacamole officially to guac.

    New York   Night   Cities  
  • The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.

    United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, (318), 1941.
  • You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.

  • Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.

  • I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

  • The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
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