Carrie Lam Quotes

We do not pretend to show that universal suffrage is an evil. Let its advocates show it to be a good.

As to those who have no landed property, ... the allowing them to vote for legislators is an impropriety.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

I demand ... the franchise for all loyal citizens

The conception of political equality can mean only one thing—one person–one vote.

One man shall have one vote.

Universal suffrage is our ultimate goal.

The laboring man in this bounteous and hospitable country has no ground for complaint. His vote is potential and he is elevated thereby to the position of a man.

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

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage and Votes by Ballot.

If women can rule monarchies they should vote in republics.

The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he, and therefore truly, sir, I think it is clear to every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government

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 most powerful non-violent tool we have in the struggle for civil rights.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

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

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.

Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.