Electoral Equality Quotes

As nearly as practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.

You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.

The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.

This House is not prepared to enfranchise all men.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

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

This nation ... has not yet reached the point of giving all men their rights by a suffrage amendment; three-fourths of the States are not ready

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Elections ought to be equal. Elections are equal, when a given number of citizens, in one part of the State, choose as many representatives, as are chosen by the same number of citizens, in any other part of the state.

It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

I should prefer to see incorporated into the Constitution a guarantee of universal suffrage; as we cannot get the required two-thirds for that, I cordially support this proposition as the next best

The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.

One goal of empowerment is to gain influence in as many elections as possible.... Beware of plans that pack you into super-minority districts, that ghettoize minorities.

All Americans deserve to see, speak to, and hear from our candidates. No county is insignificant, no community too small, and each person's vote is important.