right to vote today if we let the people decide each and every time rights are
their right to vote in Florida.
in advancing the right to vote , education, economic opportunity for and by the newly freed slaves.
The movement to secure the right to vote for women-- it's one of the longest movements if you look at the duration of time that it took from the time that we
So the attack on the right to vote with the concerted efforts at voter suppression, the political gerrymandering
Like even whether they have the right to vote .
and see how men denied women the right to vote -- said, oh, well, they shouldn't be able to vote.
We intensified our efforts to gain the right to vote .
It took decades also to give right to vote to women.
of our country, the right to vote .
Our mission is to ensure that voters can actually exercise their right to vote because they have
to work, the right to vote , to own your own life.
So then we will be still fighting for the right to vote .
was founded on the premise that everyone should have a right to vote .
Instead of going to multiple generations of women fighting for the right to vote over 50 years, you can change things in five years.
For example it's 95 years since women got the right to vote in this country.
enterprise or if they're felons and they lose the right to vote and the right to access usually that also goes hand in hand with access to decent jobs because no one wants to hire
secured the 15th Amendment, which protects the right to vote regardless of race-- the 15th Amendment was one of the three post-slavery amendments--
97 years ago, women were finally given the right to vote .
Of course, women would be given the right to vote .
I mean, you get a right to vote in America.
Because women didn't have the right to vote .
who goes on the air and he says women should have been denied the right to vote he says that Latinos breed like
But we are telling people, if you have the right to vote , vote.
1.5 million people, mostly Black and brown people now have a right to vote .
And while women may not yet have had full access to higher education, or even the right to vote , the unchaperoned, self-propelled Bloomer Girl
Where 80 percent of the young people said it wasn't worth their while to exercise their democratic right to vote .
Other countries are marching to get the right to vote .
which is our first pro-democracy constitutional provision, get uh prohibiting race discrimination with the respect to the right to vote .
So just hats off, and I can understand why that would be a real standout-- just all of us exercising our rights on the right to vote .
It took another 50 years, until 1920, when the 19th Amendment protected the right to vote regardless of sex.
I would say the first and foremost, the bedrock lesson, is the importance of protecting the right to vote , but also exercising the right to vote and running for office.
We have certain rights and responsibilities as citizens, uniquely-- for example, the right to vote .
And in both of those states, when you become a felon, you permanently lose the right to vote .
But in the end, the net result of it was during the war when they realized that a lot of soldiers had accidentally lost the right to vote
I mean, not too distant past I would have been chaining myself to other women trying to get the right to vote .
I mean, for the first 80 years in our history we had chattel slavery, for the first 140 years we denied women the right to vote ,
Even in Saudi Arabia, finally, finally, they got their right to vote .
And the solution to the crisis is not only changing our election laws, changing our Constitution to guarantee the right to vote , but also creating
I think if we wanted to save the world we should no more, we should no more give up our role in branded consumerism than we should give up the right to vote and that if we wanna
We only started, got the right to vote in 1920 in this country, and really, I mean, women couldn't even, you know, play
Even in that context, and given the fact that Britain took centuries before women got the right to vote in 1928, it was actually remarkable expression
in places in Georgia and Mississippi and all the rest, effectively de facto did not have the right to vote .