Mark Twain Quotes

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

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

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

The function of a parliamentary democracy, under universal suffrage, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attacks of the people.

Universal suffrage is our ultimate goal.

A Vote For Every Man, Whether He Owns Property Or Not

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.

Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage and Votes by Ballot.

Because I believe in democracy. Although I am the Majority Leader, I am not a dictator who should determine what bills Senators have a right to vote upon

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

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

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?

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.

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

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

Recognition of the principle ‘one man, one vote’ as a constitutional one redeems the promise of self-governance by affirming the essential dignity of every citizen to equal participation in the democratic process.