Quotes about Suppression Tactics

Chuck Klosterman

Voter suppression is wrong even if it’s not racist. Any legislation that exists for the sole purpose of making it more difficult for an otherwise eligible person to vote is unethical. It’s straightforward cheating.

A counter ethical argument says that voter suppression is ethically no different from gerrymandering, or having too few locations for voting, or voting on a Tuesday where poor people cannot often get to the polls with work and/or child obligations. For Republicans to suppress Black voting is only logical since such a high percentage of Blacks vote Democratic. It would be the same if Democratic legislatures could make it difficult for business executives to vote. It part of the rough and tumble reality of American politics.

Tom Perez

The Republican playbook is voter suppression.

John Dalrymple

It were a great advantage to the nation that thieving tribes were rooted out and cut off. It must be quietly done, otherwise they will make shift for both men and their cattle. Let it be secret and sudden.

Jason Kander

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

Max von Baden

The revolution is on the verge of winning. We cannot crush it but perhaps we can strangle it …. Perhaps it will be possible to divert the revolutionary energies into the legal channels of an election campaign.

Elections have been cynically used to divert the anger of the citizens away from the rulers. However in this case, he could not save the monarchy and the Kaiser abdicated.

Nina Turner

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

Dave Sim

Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.

Monica Crowley

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

Suppression Tactics Quotes