David Boies Quotes

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

The crown jewel of Dr. King's movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

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.

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Let us not return to the old battlefield where so many shed blood and tears for the right to vote. Instead let us move forward to an era where all eligible Americans have equal access to the ballot box and have the freedom to vote for the candidate of their choosing.

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

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

This nation ... has not yet reached the point of giving all men their rights by a suffrage amendment; three-fourths of the States are not ready

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

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

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage…

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

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

Officials who wish to deny minorities the right to vote adopt one tactic. When a lawsuit finally gets decided that the tactic is unconstitutional or otherwise illegal, the official just switches tactics…. Election enforcement lawsuits are different and demand more [than typical lawsuits.]

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.