But say some, would
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! Ernestine Rose
Ballots
Printing ballots in multiple
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
I vote because it\\’s
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. Ellen Goodman
Perhaps the fact that
Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than … Read more
Our \\’pathway\\’ is straight
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I am very worried
I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it’s not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don’t have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we’re entitled to do anything we want. But that’s not democracy, that’s majoritarianism. Elif Safak
In Halberstram\\’s fun house,
In Halberstram’s fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television). Edwin Diamond
The closer a Negro
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. E. Franklin Frazier
The ballot is the
The ballot is the only safety. Frederick Douglass
Vainly you talk about
Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God’s truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment. Frederick Douglass