From our newsletter Outside the Lines

Don’t take my word for it

Smart people thinking out loud about  voting, choices, making a stand.

“Vote early and vote often.”
- Al Capone, American gangster

“Votes should be weighed, not counted.”
- Friedrich von Schiller, German poet

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
- Kofi Annan, Ghanaian statesman

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
-Theodore Roosevelt , American president

“Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.”
- Robert Frost, American poet

“Stand, you’ve been sitting much too long, there’s a permanent crease in your right or wrong.”
- Sly Stone, American musician

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
- Emma Goldman, Lithuanian activist