Generational Impact Platform

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther-King Jnr

“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.” - Sharon Salzberg

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” – Emperor Haile Selassie

“Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.” - Hillary Clinton

“The job facing voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.” ― Aberjhani

“...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.” - Patricio Aylwin Azócar

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” - Charles de Montesquieu

“The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.” - Kin Hubbard

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." - Pastor Martin Niemöller

"Let me sound a note of caution to those vested interests which are fuelling the unrest in the hope of making political capital out of it (referring to the Konkomba-Nanumba conflict). In their narrow and callous political activities they have come to disregard the consequences that their acts of instigation have on the precious lives of innocent families and communities.

Precisely because the stability of the nation has made those persons politically irrelevant, they have now come to regard constitutional rule as providing them wide latitude and the cover under which they have resorted to mischief as a means of gaining political stature. Yet incidentally they are the first to run to take cover after they have instigated violence." (Rawlings's speech at the parade on March 7, 1994 to mark Ghana's 37th Independence anniversary)

"Let me sound a note of caution to those vested interests which are fuelling the unrest in the hope of making political capital out of it (referring to the Konkomba-Nanumba conflict). In their narrow and callous political activities they have come to disregard the consequences that their acts of instigation have on the precious lives of innocent families and communities.
Precisely because the stability of the nation has made those persons politically irrelevant, they have now come to regard constitutional rule as providing them wide latitude and the cover under which they have resorted to mischief as a means of gaining political stature. Yet incidentally they are the first to run to take cover after they have instigated violence."

(Rawlings' speech at the parade on 7th March 1994 to mark Ghana's 37th Independence anniversary)