Henry Clews Quotes

I demand ... the franchise for all loyal citizens

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.

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

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

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

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Universal suffrage is our ultimate goal.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Rich people are powerful in wealth but few in votes.

What the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs.

Voting rights and free speech are of little value to those with neither the education nor economic clout to make them meaningful.

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

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

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 very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs however little influence my voice may have in them.

… in a republic where all are free and equal--prosperity and position constitute rank.

Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance of a place.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

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

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

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