Famous quotes containing the words ballot, access and/or law:
“We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justicethat the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the menbecause we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“Make thick my blood,
Stop up th access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“It will be seen that we contemplate a time when mans will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterred by such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)