Quotes About Equality

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

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

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end segregation. What changed things was the rule of law, the courts. Brown v. Board of Education was ushered in by a movement, but it was a legal decision.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

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.

I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.

I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.

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

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

White people who voted for Trump decided to invest in a president who underwrites white supremacy in the guise of populism.

I'm here to serve the entire community. It doesn't matter if you voted for me or not.

I just want everyone who voted for Donald Trump to get what they deserve. But then I remember most people didn't vote for him, and they shouldn't suffer.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

I'm going to continue to do the work we're doing on voter suppression, supporting the work that's being done by Fair Count, ensuring a fair Census count.

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

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

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

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

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.

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