Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes

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

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

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 one of our nation's most important civil rights.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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

Secure to all people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right.

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.

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.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.

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

I demand ... the franchise for all loyal citizens

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

The consciences of the American people will not be permitted to slumber until this great constitutional right, the equality of the suffrage, equality of opportunity, freedom of political action and political thought, shall not be the mere cold formalities of constitutional enactment as now, but a living birthright which the poorest and humblest, white or black, native born or naturalized citizen, may confidently enjoy, and which the richest and most powerful dare not deny.

… where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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

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

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

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

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.