My Vote My Right Quotes

#1. So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Barack Obama

#3. Even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Susan B. Anthony

#4. Not slaves," said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. "Citizens, employed by government. They have same rights as other citizens - free speech, freedom of worship, the right to vote. Before the war, they worked in the Ilium Works, controlling machines, but now machines control themselves much better.

Anonymous

#5. You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

David Barton

#6. It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

Frederick Lenz

#7. 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

Macklemore

#8. It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Moby

#9. Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

Gianfranco Fini

#10. 'Suffragette' is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.

Sarah Gavron

#11. The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Lucy Stone

#12. Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.

Alice Cooper

#13. The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#14. It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.

Patsy Mink

#15. She had lived in Iceland from birth, a total of 36 years, without knowing that she had the right to live, work and vote in the USA.

Gudjon Bergmann

#16. I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Glenn Greenwald

#17. 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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#18. It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

Lucy Stone

#19. Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?

Jane Fonda

#20. In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

Joe Lhota

#21. I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me ... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

David Crockett

#22. When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

Alice Walker

#23. I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

Jim Renacci

#24. I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Stokely Carmichael

#25. In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In other industries, consumer preference is a key determinant in prices.

Dave DeBronkart

#26. I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

Lynn Redgrave

#27. It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

Stacey Dash

#28. I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#29. I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

Peter Hook

#30. Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

Brad Pitt

#31. I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

Claire McCaskill

#32. 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.

Robert Mugabe

#33. Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Andrew Young

#34. Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

Ken Livingstone

#36. Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Jan Schakowsky

#37. The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

Thomas Paine

#38. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

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

Lynn Westmoreland

#40. To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

#41. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.

Ben Tolosa

#42. There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist ... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Jonathan Turley

#43. We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

Alice Paul

#44. I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

Henry Miller

#45. I vote. People died for our right to vote and I can't let that go.

Chris Bosh

#46. People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

William J. Clinton

#47. When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.

Toby Keith

#48. Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.

Nicola Sturgeon

#49. I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#50. Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.

Sarah Gavron

#51. Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Kerry Washington

#52. The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

Francois Hollande

#53. Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Bo Burnham

#54. The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

Robert Kennedy

#55. Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote - I'd have cast a brick.

John Brunner

#56. General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

Benazir Bhutto

#57. All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

Goodluck Jonathan

#58. unity is possible among the people of our nation with the right kind of leadership. But we the people must for ourselves determine that we will be indivisible regardless of the leadership, and we must exercise our ability to identify the divisive forces and vote them out of office.

Ben Carson

#59. I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

Bill Bixby

#60. The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.

Justin Trudeau

#61. In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Iveta Radicova

#62. Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

Madeleine M. Kunin