It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way,… — Susan B. Anthony 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
Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more… — 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
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
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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 what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back… — David Boies Copy Share Image
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
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
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
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
If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe 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
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote. — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people… — Ronald Reagan 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
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
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