No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute… — Carol Moseley Braun 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
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
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice S Rossi 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
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
Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against… — Michelle Alexander 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 [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
VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing… — Pat Mitchell Copy Share Image
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
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
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
My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides.… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean… — Adam Carolla 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms.… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
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