Charles B. Rangel Quotes

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

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

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.

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

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.

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

Here's what I know for sure: every single vote counts. That's not just a saying.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

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

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

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.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

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.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

We are the world’s greatest democracy but we are behind a number of other countries when it come to our voting processes… The good news is that most of these are problems are fixable.