A man without a vote is man without protection.
Interpretation
Voting is essential for protecting one's rights and interests in a democracy.
This quote emphasizes the importance of voting as a means to ensure that individuals have a voice in the governance of their society. Without the ability to vote, a person lacks a fundamental tool to protect their rights and interests, making them vulnerable to decisions that may adversely affect their lives.
In practice
In a discussion about civic responsibility, one could say, 'A man without a vote is a man without protection, reminding us how crucial it is to participate in elections.'
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.
Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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