Electoral Inequality Quotes

Discrimination in voting is something that no American in his heart may justify.

How … can one person be given twice or ten times the voting power of another person ... merely because he lives in a rural area.

No papist, though not convicted as such, shall be entitled to vote at the election of any member to serve in parliament, or at the election of any magistrate for any city or other town corporate.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute — a white skin.

Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.

The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.

Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations.

Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.

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.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

Political discussions fly over the heads of those who have no votes, and are not endeavoring to acquire them.

One of the things about the electoral system in the United States, in general, is that it is very susceptible to class. In poorer neighborhoods you are going to have a lower turnout. This country is very much a middle-class country. When you're talking about poor or working-class people, there are not many vehicles for mobilizing them.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

An election could end up exacerbating deep divisions.

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.