Best Right To Vote Quotations
98 Right To Vote quotes by 80 unique authors
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To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting…
— Ernest Istook
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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
— Jesse Jackson
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to…
— Jesse Jackson
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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
— Ken Livingstone
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It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people…
— Moby
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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 vote back in…
— Michael Moore
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People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has…
— Robert Mugabe
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for…
— Rand Paul
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
— Rand Paul
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Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
— Nancy Pelosi
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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
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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; the political function…
— Ayn Rand
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as…
— Charles Rangel
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
— Kathleen Sebelius
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
— Al Sharpton
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Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose,…
— Kerry Washington
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No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna…
— Steven Weber
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic…
— Juan Williams
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been…
— Andrew Young
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I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women…
— Barbra Streisand
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Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.
— Naomi Klein
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The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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