Quotes of: Ballot Keyword

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

Susan B. Anthony

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

Carl Lewis

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Cory Doctorow

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

Al Franken

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

Lord Salisbury

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

Ida B. Wells

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

Catherine Helen Spence

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

E. Franklin Frazier

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Jesse Ventura

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

John Jay Hooker

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

Andrew Cuomo

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

Abraham Lincoln

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

Wavy Gravy

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

Benazir Bhutto

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Rose Schneiderman

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Richard Flanagan

Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Lysander Spooner

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Richard Armitage

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

David Axelrod