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
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