When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political… — Iveta Radicova Copy Share Image
If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to,… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
As an American, we have a right to vote and to our freedom of speech, and to voice our political views, and… — Katie Walsh Copy Share Image
No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The crown jewel of Dr. King's movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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