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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. -- Ambrose Bierce
Democracy is more than a ballot box. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. -- James Buchanan
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. -- E. Franklin Frazier
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. -- Ida B. Wells
Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward. -- Virginia Foxx
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box. -- Bob Brown
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point. -- Nick Clegg
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
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box. -- Wesley Clark
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
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else. -- Justin Trudeau
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later. -- Michael Baumgartner
I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power. -- Tipper Gore
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
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. -- Bob Schaffer
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be. -- Robert Caro
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. -- Charles B. Rangel
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box. -- Christine Pelosi
If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond. -- Noreena Hertz
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. -- Rose Schneiderman
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth. -- Andrew Young
Never forgive at the ballot box! -- Wendell Phillips
Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. -- Gus Hall
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education. -- John Monash
Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. -- Rush Limbaugh
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Frederick Douglass
We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box. -- Nina Turner
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? -- Benjamin Tucker
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. -- Kelly Ayotte
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box. -- Steve Symms
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Larry McDonald
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government. -- Barack Obama
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
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. -- Lydia M. Child
Leftists don't leave it at winning at the ballot box. If they lose at the ballot box, they force themselves on the country or society elsewhere. -- Rush Limbaugh
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. -- Neil Kinnock
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams. -- Francisco Franco
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box. -- Frederick Douglass
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls. -- Walter Reuther
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. -- Gus Hall

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