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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of read more
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).
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the
same high sanction, though in a different sphere, read more
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the
same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a
public trust.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls read more
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only read more
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half
completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands read more
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half
completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands
are left without education.
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't
invite me to dinner, but because read more
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't
invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the
airport there were such enormous potholes.
The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand,
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand,
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
