Adam Cohen Quotes

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

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.

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

I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The right of election is the very essence of the English constitution.

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.

Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.

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.

You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.

Voting rights matter. They are a major part of who we are as Americans.

I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.