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Voter suppression takes different forms.
Stacey Abrams /
Suppression
Forms
Voter
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Expression is never helped by suppression.
Ming-Dao Deng / Author
Expression
Feel Good
Suppression
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Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real.
Stacey Abrams /
Clear
Real
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Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.
David Milch / Producer
Ego
Ostentation
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Act
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The Republican playbook is voter suppression.
Tom Perez /
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Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.
Marc Veasey / United States Representative
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Sadly
Voter
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It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.
Susan Glaspell / Playwright
Denial
Hell
Suppression
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the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.
Vida Dutton Scudder / Writer
Peace
War
Suppression
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Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Suppression
Hurts
Voter
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Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Legislation
Suppression
Id
Potent
Voter
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Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Strategy
Suppression
Re-Election
Voter
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In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
Gunnar Myrdal / Economist
Liberty
Suppression
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader
Interest
Self
Suppression
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The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.
Merlin Stone / Author
Rights
Rite
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Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.
Joshua Wong /
Hong Kong
Suppression
Authoritarian
Confront
Front Line
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Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto / Former Prime Minister Of Pakistan
Circumstances
Justified
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It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
Lenny Bruce / Comedian
Giving
Suppression
Violence
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I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Commit
Suppression
Believe I Believe Political
Voter
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith / American Politician
Men
Truth
Exertion
Mercy
Noble
Rights
Suppression
Powers
Require
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Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Capable
Shyness
Suppression
Invariably
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The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
Cormac Mccarthy / Novelist
Women
Machines
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The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Benefits
Monopoly
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
William Wilberforce / British Politician
God
Great
Almighty
Manners
Objects
Reformation
Slave
Suppression
Trade
Two
God Great Me
Before
Set
God Almighty
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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Election
Levels
Suppression
Donald
Donald Trump
Efforts
Voter
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It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.
Nina Turner / Ohio State Senator
Office
Suppression
Elected
Engage
Serve
Voter
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow / Writer
Accuracy
One Thing
Oppression
Suppression
Hold
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While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Ephraim Mirvis /
Circumstances
Cowardice
Noble
Oblivion
Self Control
Suppression
Signify
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It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
Harriet Martineau / Writer
Truth
Diffusion
Suppression
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Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Exposing
Suppression
Voting
Favor
Motivations
Voter
Voting Rights
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We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.
Andrew Young / Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Flipped
Republican Party
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Lincoln
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To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.
Kellyanne Conway / Strategist
Election
Suppression
Me People Feel
Begun
Different Kind
Voter
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It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
J. Edgar Hoover / Political Figure
Certain
Information
Suppression
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Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
Jackson Katz / Educator
Bad Stuff
Free Speech
Response
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Advocate
Mantra
Repeat
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The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
Hussein Of Jordan /
Absence
Suppression
Acts
Condition
Exploit
Extremists
Innocents
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It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
Sidney Blumenthal / Journalist
Running
History
Book
Country
Crow
Jim Crow
Race
Rights
Suppression
Thread
Voting
Since
Beginning
Biggest
Jim
Runs
Voting Rights
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Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.
Tsai Ing-Wen / Taiwanese Politician
Harm
Identity
National Identity
Stability
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Forms
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The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.
Ryan Zinke / American Politician
Suppression
Catastrophic
Forest
Importantly
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We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
Emanuel Celler / American Politician
Communism
Individual Freedom
Suppression
Tactics
Firmly
Fought
Resort
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The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so.
Stacey Abrams /
Ability
Suppression
Vote
Blocking
Created
Terrifying
Voter
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Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
Anthony Lewis /
Despite
Gains
Publish
Punishment
Suppression
Unwelcome
Government Democracy World
Criminal
Risks
Truths
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It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
James Bovard / Author
Administration
Concern
Conservative
Favors
Precedence
Suppression
Surprising
Conservatives
Favor
So-Called
Voiced
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America's bastions of free thought have become hubs of suppression. If you're on the left, riot in the streets without repercussion. But if you're on the right, speak at your own peril.
Kayleigh Mcenany /
America
Left
Peril
Riot
Speak
Streets
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Free
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Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.
Jennifer Granholm / Former Governor Of Michigan
Filibuster
Law
Names
Overzealous
Support
Suppression
Republicans
Selecting
Tactic
Voter
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Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.
Phil Everly /
Harmony
Infamous
Suppression
Ultimate
Brothers
Closer
Love Yourself Singing
Requires
Split
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The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
Opinion
Polls
Public Opinion
Suppression
Used
Just
Another
Being
Attempt
Being Used
Public
Depress
Heck
Reflect
Shape
Tool
Voter
Yours
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Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Citizens
Function
Suppression
Exercising
Nonexistent
Votes
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Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous for a young woman to be confused in love?
Kanika Dhillon /
Censorship
Confused
Inconvenient
Suppression
Definition
Harmful
Material
Objectionable
Young Woman
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Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act is so egregious as to be absolutely clear on its face.
Stacey Abrams /
Clear
Reason
Suppression
Absolutely
Act
Face
Works
Challenge
Elections
Created
Outcome
Says
Unless
Voter
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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
Naomi Wolf / Author
Barack
Fervent
Grassroots
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Party
People
Suppression
Tea
Tea Party
Barack Obama
Base
Bush
Emerged
George
George W
George W. Bush
Libertarians
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
Avoided
Lynching
Menace
Satisfied
Should Have
Spirit
Suffrage
Suppression
Universal
Universal Suffrage
Vote
Absolute
Alleged
Mob
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