Young people think broadly about voting rights or economic rights but don't understand how individuals were affected by voting rights. The right to vote was to get people out of office who would bring on segregation.

We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, in New Orleans. People should still have a say in what happens in the communities that were ravaged by Katrina.

People in general, especially young people need to be taught more about what segregation was like. They don't understand how pervasive -- or how dangerous -- segregation was.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.