Single Member Constituency

Famous quotes containing the words single, member and/or constituency:

“Ye taught my lips a single speech,
And a thousand silences.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)