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POLITICAL & VOTING QUOTES/STATEMENTS

Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls. Peggy Noonan

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender. Keith Ellison

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don't vote. George Jean Nathan

Talk is cheap, voting is free; take it to the polls. Nanette L. Avery

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have. John Lewis

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it. Susan B. Anthony

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. Aristotle

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. Barack Obama

You will never know how much it cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. John Adams

Hate won't make America great.

Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed it ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Martin Luther King Jr.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. RFK-Robert Kennedy

Teach your children to think "we" not "them" and "us." Marty Rubin

One love, one heart. Let's get together and feel all right. Bob Marley

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. John Lennon



BANNING BOOKS QUOTES/STATEMENTS

Books are not dangerous - people who ban books are.

Be a banned book reader.

Be with the banned - fight censorship.

Ban assault rifles - not books.

Tell me a time in history when it was the good guys banning books.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. Stephen Chbosky

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The first thing you ban are books. The second thing you start to ban are the kids that look like the kids in the books. George M. Johnson

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. Isaac Asimov

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. Eugene O'Neill