Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history,… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote,… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every… — Aberjhani 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
We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans… — Donna Brazile 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
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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