40 Quotes About Voting-rights
- Author Greg Palast
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We proved these people were wrongly removed. this was a Jim Crow operation. Except instead of white sheets they used spreadsheets.
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- Author Stacey Abrams
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…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome.
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- Author Stacey Abrams
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No other right guaranteed by our constitution permits the loss of a right for failure to use it—to wit, I don't lose my Second Amendment right if I choose not to go hunting and I still have freedom of religion if I skip church now and then.
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- Author Richard Nixon
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You gotta remember the smartest thing the Congress did was to limit the voters in this country. Out of 3 1/2 to 4 million people, 200,000 voted. And that was true for a helluva long time, and the republic would have never survived if all the dummies had voted along with the intelligent people.
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- Author David Litt
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Fixing our democracy is the equivalent of repairing a crack in your home's foundation. It's expensive and time consuming. It doesn't boost your curb appeal. But it's the only way to make every other alteration last.
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- Author David Litt
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Allow more people to vote, and more people who support voting rights will get elected. The more successfully we defend our republic, the easier our republic becomes to defend. There are ideas that benefit from years or even decades of nitpicky polish. Fixing our country's foundation is not one of them.
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- Author Rashid Jorvee
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Voting only in elections is not democracy
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- Author Aberjhani
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We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.
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- Author Aberjhani
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There is a great new work before us, which is to replace with true knowledge the ignorance that has destroyed human minds. We will construct unity in a world [which] has been brutally torn apart by false divisions of race, religion, gender, nationality, and age. We will heal with unconditional love those souls whose hearts have been disfigured by hatred and loneliness.
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