William O. Douglas Quotes

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.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

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

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

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.

[The President should] get a voting bill [from Congress] that will end the necessity for any more voting rights bills.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

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.

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

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

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.

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.

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.

Too many people are voting.

A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon

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.

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.