Right To Vote Quotes - Page 8

• I have a tremendous fan base. I know we have a tremendous base, we have the most incredible people. But I just don`t have any interest in that. I have one interest, and that`s on November 8th. And frankly, right now, some people are voting right now.

  Donald Trump

  People, Voting, Fans

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We need a nonpartisan debate commission that actually allows candidates, who are on the ballot in enough states that they could win the election - voters not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.

  Jill Stein

  Winning, Needs, Voters

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience.

  Barbara Boxer

  College, Understanding, Want

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There's a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel's law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Israel, Law

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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 most underreported stories.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has had on our African-American brothers and sisters. I have witnessed it.

  Jeff Sessions

  Brother, Impact, Rights

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Rights, People, African American

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.

  Michael Lind

  Wall, Military, Wings

  Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com

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• My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

  Michelle Singletary

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

  Joseph Stalin

  Citizens, Election, Vote

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• In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.

  Margaret Atwood

  Passion, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want self-determination. If that means having a constitutional monarchy as the first step, fine. But, in the end, people in Bahrain should have the right to vote and choose their president. A single family should not be allowed to rule on its own.

  Zainab al-Khawaja

  Mean, People, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Grandmother

  Kerry Washington's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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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 to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Women, Feminist

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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 on in years to come and say, 'I can't believe it took so long for us to recognize this.' It'll be like segregation and giving women the right to vote.

  Julianne Moore

  Couple, Believe, Gay

  "Julianne Moore Articulates Why The Fight For LGBT Rights Doesn’t End With Marriage Equality" by Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2015.

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• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Animal, Thinking, Stressed

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

  Gary Steiner

  Animal, Silence, Vegetarian

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

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• We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

  Alice Paul

  America, Democracy, Twenties

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• Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

  Michael Manley

  Believe, Mean, Rights

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• Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

  Rights, Long, Voting

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• It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.

  Alma Adams

  Party, Rights, Voting

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• I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

  Andrew Young

  Rights, Long, Voting

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• Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

  Naomi Klein

  Political, Voting, Democracy

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• As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized...
  I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote.
  I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom.
  I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

  Common

  Kids, Caring, Rights

  "72nd Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2015.

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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Reflection, Political Will

  "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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