Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The right to vote is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in the struggle for civil rights.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Give the woman the ballot and you will make her more important in the eyes of the world.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

If you protect a person's right to vote, then he'll protect himself better than you can.

Secure to all people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right.

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

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.

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government

The extension of suffrage will not forbid the supremacy of intelligence.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.