Matt Deitsch
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I definitely know that in the very beginning of all this, we met with a bunch of kids from Chicago, the Peace Warriors mainly, who we are still friends with today, and they told us about the six principles of nonviolence in Martin Luther King's.
And principle number five is... No, principle number four is accept suffering without retaliation for the sake of the cause to achieve the goal, which means, basically, it doesn't matter what you face as an individual, the goal is much more important than anybody, which is kind of the main principle that, you know, we went to see the...
sit-in counters in North Carolina, and that was the methods that were used then.
Doesn't matter if somebody hits me.
Doesn't matter if somebody pours something over my head, try to get me off of this seat.
I need to sit here because this is for everybody.
Mm-hmm.
because people say, my vote doesn't count.
So if somebody's in your face saying, register to vote, you can say, oh, sure.
But nobody's going to go up to you the day of the polls and say, get out there and vote.
We're going to try to do offers of ride sharing and stuff like that.
We encourage people to say, you know,
try to carpool everybody that you know and try to get everybody at the polls at the same time to offer the transportation to those who don't have it.
But if a million people say my vote doesn't count, that's a million votes that could have either swung a district or made an impact.
In the Ohio special election, it was under 2,000 votes that was the difference between the two people.
Like, your vote really, really does count.
What if it had been one vote?
That person's one vote would have made the difference.
The QR code, if you scan it with your camera, very simple, don't even need an app, it will get you registered to vote in under two minutes.
You don't even have to agree with us in policy.