Sharice Davids Quotes

We know, without question, especially during a pandemic, we have to preserve people's rights to be healthy and safe but also to exercise their fundamental right to vote and I think all of us should be very clear and very loud about that.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

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.

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

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

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.

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.

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.

We must demonstrate our power by exercising our right to vote.

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

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

We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.

As Republicans try to trample on our most sacred freedoms, Democrats will do everything we can to end discrimination and protect the one right that preserves all others - the right to vote.

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.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

Whether you either passionately think we should stay in, or on balance think we should stay in, or on a balance of risks think we should stay in - for heaven's sake get out and vote in, because you might wake up and find out you're out.

In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.

My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about it.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many.

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.