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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and
heart to this vote.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and
heart to this vote.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to read more
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about 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).
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.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity has made them good.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity has made them good.