The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
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EDWARD KENNEDY This will allow more time to finally agree on a bill that protects our rights and freedoms while pre...
RUSS FEINGOLD a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is n...
ROBERT H. BORK The focus should be more on those who are violating human rights and denying people their human righ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN No one is arguing that the entire Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 2 is the most impor...
LUTHER STRANGE The more vocal people become about your blessing is a testament in its self.
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PETER L. BERGER One of the things that saddens me in the voting process is the low turnout. One thing we have lost i...
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ANDY JONES Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfath...
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JENNIFER MARUSAK As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN Don't be led astray by the oversimplified notion that proper use of the breathing apparatus will mag...
JEROME HINES Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rig...
RAND PAUL The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And th...
DOROTHY ALLISON A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klans...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Although I would like more than you know to answer the questions that you and your colleagues have a...
BERNIE EBBERS It's a federally funded program in which the outreach aids other programs in areas that will help th...
WENDY GORDON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The thing that is really changed is people have become a little more camera-ready. They come more pr...
KAREN KEANE People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite...
YOKO ONO Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
RAND PAUL We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, i...
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JAMES MCBRIDE Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The fact that [someone is] an unattractive character with followers holding rather odd theology, doe...
ALEX MCCOLL My belief has always been . . . that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights ar...
RONALD REAGAN The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and an essential protection of that right is t...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is...
ERNST FISCHER I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a po...
EDWARD SNOWDEN Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights an...
CAROL BELLAMY Voting rights matter. They are a major part of who we are as Americans.
MARC VEASEY So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
NEIL GAIMAN Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terribl...
EMMA GOLDMAN As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local governmen...
MICHELLE BACHELET It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...
SUSAN ANTHONY Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, incl...
MARTY MEEHAN As the economy has slowed customers have become more concerned about price.
LEE SCOTT We expect Parliament will make a decision today about the constitutional assembly. If they do not we...
BAMDEV GAUTAM I regard people by their devotion to their labour; the more they compromise, the less admirable they...
AKRAM ABU HAMDAN So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have beco...
RUSSELL MEANS The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and w...
MAEVE BINCHY The fact they finished level, both polling more than twice as many votes as the player in third plac...
EHSAN MANI As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become mor...
JANET NAPOLITANO Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their F...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be b...
TOM WOLFE Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional i...
REID HOFFMAN Children being involved with journalism can become conscious about their rights which is a must to s...
PROF AAMS AREFIN SIDDIQUE When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our so...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.
PAUL G. THOMAS People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it
DOUGLAS ADAMS [These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indicatio...
FOUAD AJAMI The more you reveal about yourself, the more vulnerable you become. Silence is your best defense.
JEFF NIKOVIC There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political...
ADAM COHEN [King] also wouldn't be happy to see that the people here in D.C. still don't have rights when it co...
JOHN CAPOZZI My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
EVA CHEN Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans...
GARY F EVANS... The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL This looks more and more like a constitutional coup here in Sri Lanka.
KASRA NAJI The Filipino people mark a glorious day in history, when instead of forcing a president out of offic...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO [The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the Whit...
LYNDON JOHNSON People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of the...
NORMAN COUSINS The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I dive...
ZIGGY MARLEY It's become more and more common because more and more women are delaying pregnancy. It's not that t...
JEANNE PETREK People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin t...
RAJEEV SHUKLA This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak...
TED DEUTCH The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not ...
NEVILLE MARRINER People will be able to learn more about their history and respect their city more.
JOSHUA SIMMONS We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it ...
CLARENCE THOMAS As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts’ record, it is imperative that there is i...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, n...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to ...
FRANK SACKS Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part...
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MARSHALL GANZ As more and more people start to recognize the vision of where we're going with this, it's going to ...
FRANK HARDY People who are pro-abortion care more about the future of their child and less about the conceived e...
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JAMES SALTER Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
JAMES MONTGOMERY Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
JAMES COMEY But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both...
JAMES THURBER When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow...
JAMES THURBER I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces...
WILLIAM JAMES