“Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.”

Source: Mort

Machinists' Monthly Journal

On Nick Clegg and his vote to increase tuition fees http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=234&num=335499, 30 November 2010.

On President George W. Bush in &quot;BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore&quot; (13 March 2002) http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/03/Michael_Moore_031302.html <br class="br">2002

atheism.about.com http://atheism.about.com/b/a/035044.htm, 2003.

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Essays
Variant: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Context: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

As quoted in &quot;Take The Money and Run&quot;, Sounds (27 December 1990), interviewed by Keith Cameron on 23 September 1990&lt;sup&gt; http://www.livenirvana.com/interviews/9009kc/index.html&lt;/sup&gt;