Single Member Constituency

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

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

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