On Friday, the former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, during two voter registration events titled ‘When We All Vote’, urged the public to show up during the midterm elections and vote.
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Here are 5 important quotes from her speech that emphasised the importance of voting in a democracy.
- I’m sick of all the chaos and nastiness of our politics. Here’s the problem: while some folks are frustrated and tuned out and staying home on election day, trust me other folks are showing up. Democracy continues with or without you.
- Wouldn’t you want to be absolutely positive that the folks elected to make those decisions about our daily lives, decisions that range from when we send our troops to war to how victims of sexual assault are treated. Wouldn’t you want to be sure that those elected officials were thinking about all of us, not just some small percentage of us?
- Voting is the only way to ensure that your concerns matter. Period.
- So when you don’t vote, what you’re really doing is letting someone else take power over your own life.
- You can’t vote some of the time and then sit out. You know we saw that happen, we experienced that where we had a great president.