No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue to drive divisions and create phony narratives.
Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.
There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.
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).
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.