Quotes About Rights

The Republican playbook is voter suppression.

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

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.

Every voter has a right to criticise a government and comment on its functioning.

Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

The ability for every legal, registered voter to participate in our democratic process should not be a partisan issue.

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

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

What is needed to pass gay marriage is not a Democratic majority - this past year has proven that to be true - but politicians and judges comfortable enough to ignore what the majority of the voters want and do what is uncomfortable, unpopular - and morally right.

Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave voters' objectives, without sacrificing our rights and protections, as the Conservatives threaten to do.

No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.

I don't believe in political self-censorship.

The United States always maintains the right to self-defense.

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.