Quotes of: Voting-rights Keyword

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to pro...

Hillary Clinton

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 so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

Andrew Young

Who you vote for is your right...Just make sure you use that right :)

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Jan Schakowsky

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

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

Chris Coons

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm ot...

P. J. O'Rourke

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Dave Brat

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Mel Martinez

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

Charles B. Rangel

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by...

Nancy Keenan

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Eddie Marsan

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arab...

Adam McKay

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Emma Goldman

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to ...

Up, Simba!

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Nikki Reed

I had a dream about you. Half the people wanted to kill me, and half the people wanted me as their President. It was up to you whether I lived or reigned, and you made the logical choice—you chose not to choose. You exercised your right to not exer...

We Had A #Dream About You

Martin Luther King Jr.: We will not wait any longer! [church congregation applauds] Martin Luther King Jr.: Give us the vote! Jimmie Lee Jackson: [stands up and applauds] That's right - no more! Martin Luther King Jr.: We're not asking - we're demand...

Selma