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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. -- Emma Goldman
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. -- Ann Coulter
The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy. -- Charles B. Rangel
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud. -- Lynn Westmoreland
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. -- Jesse Jackson
Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity. -- Naomi Klein
The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. -- Timothy Noah
With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us. -- Monica Johnson
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. -- Nancy Pelosi
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. -- Alice Paul
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. -- Ayn Rand
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something. -- Bob Weir
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Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out. -- Judy Gold
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
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 is by not voting. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 stay home on election day. -- Moby
The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately. -- Barbara Mikulski
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
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 or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas. -- Juan Williams
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, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. -- Kerry Washington
The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. -- Ayn Rand
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) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. -- Ambrose Bierce
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 of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). -- Ayn Rand
Exercise your right to vote. -- Dolores Huerta
You gotta fight for your right to vote! -- Chris Farley
Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.*** -- Barack Obama
You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote. -- David Barton
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. -- Ludwig von Mises
I vote. People died for our right to vote and I can't let that go. -- Chris Bosh
When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries. -- Jesse Jackson
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't. -- Bo Burnham
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! -- Susan B. Anthony
The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens. -- Jesse Jackson
Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920. -- Louise Slaughter
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. -- Al Sharpton
With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us. -- Monica Johnson
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. -- Ken Livingstone
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. -- Lucy Stone
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote. -- Barack Obama
In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for. -- Jill Stein
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. -- Alice S Rossi
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. -- Benjamin Jealous
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. -- Benjamin Jealous
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
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. -- Louise Slaughter
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. -- Agnes Varda
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
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
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
I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms. Merkel were reelected. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy. -- Monica Johnson
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 secondary. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote. -- Sarah Gavron
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami. -- Iveta Radicova
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 for office. -- Barbara Boxer
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams. -- Jesse Jackson
Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting. -- Cynthia Nixon
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
We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights. -- Donna Brazile
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 cajole people to register and to vote. -- Jesse Jackson
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote -- Lucy Stone
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote. -- Lucy Stone
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population. -- Jeremy Seabrook
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 the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education. -- Michael Moore
Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment? -- Jane Fonda
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote. -- Mo Rocca
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike. -- Dick Wolf
Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions. -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote. -- Otis Moss III
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody. -- Andrew Young
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote. -- Bayard Rustin
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
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 pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. -- Ernest Istook
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 the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency. -- Robert Mugabe
Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. -- Mo Rocca
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 like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. -- Alice Walker
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
It's very important to vote. People died for this right. -- Lenny Kravitz
Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God. -- Monica Johnson
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history. -- Fatos Nano
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. -- Hillary Clinton
The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. -- Justin Trudeau
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
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
Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights. -- Jeff Greenfield
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
To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote. -- Robert Griffin III
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
New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex. -- Bill Maher
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
Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity. -- Macklemore
Vote Love means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote whats right for humanity. -- Macklemore
It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president. -- Stacey Dash
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. -- Glenn Greenwald
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. -- Lou Henry Hoover
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? -- Victoria Woodhull
I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms. -- Mel Martinez
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. -- Aeschylus
Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now. -- Jackie Speier
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. -- Gianfranco Fini
Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent. -- Francis Maude
There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right. -- Jonathan Turley
When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left. -- Toby Keith
People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right. -- William J. Clinton
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. -- Jay Griffiths

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