Democracy Quote by Anthony Kennedy Download Open image “No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.” — Anthony Kennedy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Right to vote Rights Urgency Validity Voting Voting rights
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there is an obligation - not just a right, but an obligation - to vote. — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. — Anonymous 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
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And each generation… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image