Quotes About Rights

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

I'm glad I can't vote.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.

You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

Restoring the rights of individuals who have served their time and reentered society is the right thing to do. Virginia's felon disenfranchisement policy is rooted in a tragic history of voter suppression and marginalization of minorities, and it needs to be overturned.

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.