First Ever Unofficial Democratic Underground - Great Quotes That Support A Candidate Contest

[SoLeftIAmRight]

Bonus point for quotes by a President.


I support Bernie Sanders because:

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

George Washington

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

I support Bernie Sanders

[Perogie]

2. I support Bernie Sanders because....

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“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands,
but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides,
and following them, you reach your destiny”
― Carl Schurz

[tk2kewl]

17. that is great!

[Cheese Sandwich]

3. Bernie because "Power concedes nothing without a demand" - Frederick Douglass

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,

but we can't have both" - Louis D. Brandeis

[ProudToBeLiberal]

5. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither

Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin

I support Hillary Clinton.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Ironic that shes the one who wants a "manhattan project" to compromise the security of

Your iphone, isnt it?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

15. Yep - that quote did not sing Hillary to me

...

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. "Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state."

Hillary Clinton

I support Bernie Sanders

[Fumesucker]

7. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible

-Arthur C Clarke

[nolabels]

9. And the only way of switching tracks from the caboose is if you are going backwards

The rear always follows the front unless a rear is leading

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams

[Jim Lane]

10. A quotation for anyone whose candidate loses the nomination battle

If Clinton is nominated, I plan to vote for her, remembering what Eugene McCarthy told his supporters after he lost the nomination in 1968: "I'm voting for Humphrey, and I think you should suffer with me."

Clinton supporters are invited to use this quotation if Sanders is nominated.

Jim Webb has reportedly considered a third-party candidacy. With that possible exception, I'm sure that all our candidates will join forces behind the Convention's nominee, and will do so more enthusiastically than McCarthy did.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. "Fuck em if they cant take a joke"

Ok, just kidding.

[Katashi_itto]

13. “The saddest thing about selling out is just how cheaply most of us do it for.”

― James Bernard Frost

I don't support Hillary

[VulgarPoet]

14. Yup... sell you conscience because American Exceptionalism and all that horseshit.

This shit is making me just as nihilistic as I used to be, man.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

16. here is a whole stack of Martin Luther King Jr.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.