Right To Vote Quotes - Page 3

• The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Ukraine, Orange, People

  Source: newslinemagazine.com

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• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Believe, Sunshine

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2010). “Darkwater: The Givens Collection”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.

  Robert Griffin III

  Country, Military, Exercise

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• Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mother, Country, Powerful

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• When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Government, Rights

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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 right to vote.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Ohio, People, Voting

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• The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Meaningful, Real, Years

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• We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

  John Fugelsang

  Country, Rights, Voting

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• During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  "Rand Paul at Howard University". The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.

  Pat Mitchell

  Exercise, Knowing, Long

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• When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Vote, Jury

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.

  Jesse Jackson

  Senior, Rights, Wings

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

  Jesse Jackson

  Kings, Jewels, Drs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it.

  Eustace Mullins

  Two, Philadelphia, People

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• Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.

  Charles Stross

  Running, Technology, Rights

  Charles Stross (2010). “Accelerando”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.

  Annie Leonard

  People, Political, Feelings

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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 of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  Herman Cain

  Rights, Voting, President

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Years, Iraq

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• Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

  Michelle Alexander

  Educational, Men, Opportunity

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

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• If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Funny, Children, Rights

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.95, Transaction Publishers

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• A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

  John Rawls

  Political, Vote, Virtue

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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 the community from which they have been displaced.

  Marc Morial

  Voice, Rights, Effort

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• No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Rights, Voting, Validity

  "Justice Kennedy: Voting Rights Act might now be unfair" by Joan Biskupic, abcnews.go.com.

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• The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

  Jesse Jackson

  Rights, Voting, Firsts

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

  Lucy Powell

  Responsibility, Simple, Vote

  "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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