Right To Vote Quotes

• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Voting, Way

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.318, Best Books on

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• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Rights, Political

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin

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• This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Destiny, People, Giving

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.841, Best Books on

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• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Liberty, Majority

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin

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• With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Effort, Democracy

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2015.

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• Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
  to ensure that right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Citizens, Denial, Vote

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Vote, Citizenship

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

  Noah Webster

  Selfish, Men, Rights

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• I vote. People died for our right to vote and I can't let that go.

  Chris Bosh

  People, Vote, Died

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.

  Otis Moss III

  Community, Voting, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Powerful, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Fighting, Men, Rights

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• Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Rights, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Law, Long, Mind

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Education Association of the United States (1979*). “Building networks for nonviolent social change: report of the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on Nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 2, 1980 [i.e. 1979]”

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• Exercise your right to vote.

  Dolores Huerta

  Exercise, Vote

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

  Hillary Clinton

  Integrity, House, Voting

  "Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know". Book by the American Conservative Union (p. 71), September 30, 2005.

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• The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Freedom, Democracy, Details

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• There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Struggle, Rights

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.

  David Boies

  Mean, Thinking, Rights

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• Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

  Jesse Jackson

  Winning, People, Vote

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Democracy, Vote, Oppression

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• The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, Risk, Voters

  "Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law for now" by Jason Hanna, Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2014.

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• The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Hype, Voter Fraud, Voters

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• 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.

  Moby

  Home, America, People

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