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right to vote

«The vote demonstrates that we accept the notion that all human beings are created in the image of God and have an equal right to preach and teach the word of God.»
«The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took»
«In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.»
Author: Dick Gregory | About: Chicago, Voting | Keywords: Chicago, right to vote, voting
«Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.»
«If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves»
«The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century»
«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).»
«Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.»
«All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.»
«Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.»

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