Political Quotes

“Madam Vice President, the right to vote is sacred, the heart of any democracy. And in a proud, though painful tradition, successive generations of Americans have fought to expand and protect that right and ensure that we as a country live up to our democratic ideals. Many risked their safety and even gave their lives in the fight for the right to vote. From Frederick Douglass to Lucy Burns, from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to John Lewis, and countless other unnamed and unknown patriots, Americans have long taken it upon themselves to make their Union more perfect. It is because of the sacrifice and unyielding activism of those brave Americans that the 14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th Amendments were ratified; the Indian Citizenship Act was passed; the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed; and in 1965, the landmark legislation of the Voting Rights Act was enacted. That transformative law, along with its bipartisan renewals over the following decades, helped set us on a path to representation across the Nation that better reflected the diversity of the American people and better ensured the right to vote. We cannot allow these hard-earned advances to be reversed. Yet, as we speak, instead of preserving the right to vote, Republicans are finding new and insidious ways to make it harder to cast ballots. Why else would they oppose secure, effective, verifiable mail-in ballots? What other reason is there for curtailing early voting and weekend voting?…”