“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of our country… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my… — Lucy Stone 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
When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that’s when votes started being cast with emotion… — Rush Limbaugh 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