Voting rights are constitutional rights.

England shouldn't have the real freedom of vote and we shouldn't either. Because as [James Madison] put it, one of the primary goals of…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that…

— Charles B. Rangel

I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our…

— John Adams

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

— Anthony Kennedy

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now…

— Lani Guinier

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First…

— Argus Hamilton

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local…

— Edward Brooke

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound…

— Albert Einstein

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

— Steve Stockman

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that…

— James Madison

The period of my service will depend on two conditions. Firstly, of course, there are rules stipulated by the Constitution, and I surely will…

— Vladimir Putin

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

— Saddam Hussein

We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found…

— Winona LaDuke