Right To Vote Quotes
98 quotes by 80 authors
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For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
— Michelle Bachelet
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run…
— Barbara Boxer
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The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage…
— Herman Cain
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
— Adam Carolla
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No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have…
— Hillary Clinton
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
— Susan B. Anthony
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people will look back…
— Julianne Moore
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
— Ayn Rand
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The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure…
— Ayn Rand
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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
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
— Lucy Stone
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote,…
— Kumi Naidoo
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in…
— Marc Morial
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It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to…
— Sidney Blumenthal
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Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights…
— Marty Meehan
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The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The…
— Ludwig von Mises
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