#ballot

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#ballot #cross #deciding #democracy #even

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#ballot box #box #closer #got #like

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. ↗

— David Axelrod

#arriving #ballots #being #counted #custody

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#ballot #both #choice #commonly #duty

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

#been #black #civil #civil rights #conditions

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#ballot box #box #civil #civil rights #freedom

Sharpton is not even on the Presidential primary ballot here in Louisiana. ↗

— Tony Brown

#even #here #louisiana #presidential #primary

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#ballot #community #elections #first #give

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. ↗