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Matt Deitsch

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21 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

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.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

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...

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

sit-in counters in North Carolina, and that was the methods that were used then.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

Doesn't matter if somebody hits me.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

Doesn't matter if somebody pours something over my head, try to get me off of this seat.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

I need to sit here because this is for everybody.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

because people say, my vote doesn't count.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

So if somebody's in your face saying, register to vote, you can say, oh, sure.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

But nobody's going to go up to you the day of the polls and say, get out there and vote.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

We're going to try to do offers of ride sharing and stuff like that.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

We encourage people to say, you know,

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

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.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

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.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

In the Ohio special election, it was under 2,000 votes that was the difference between the two people.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

Like, your vote really, really does count.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

What if it had been one vote?

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

That person's one vote would have made the difference.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

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.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Young Activists

You don't even have to agree with us in policy.

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