non-voter

Updated: April 30, 2025

The evidence offered by him in support of his accusation was the Anti-Unionist position taken by William Lloyd Garrison, who branded the Union as a "league with hell," and some of his associates. But Garrison was not a leader, or even a member, of the third or Liberty party. He denounced it almost as bitterly as Mr. Roosevelt. Garrison was a Quaker, a non-resistant, and a non-voter.

John F. (John Ferguson) Hume - The Abolitionists: Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

Where they have not that power, neither the voter nor the non-voter has any redress against violence offered to property or limb or life. Gerrymanders and lynchings in many parts of our land prove the truth of this.

Helen Kendrick Johnson - Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

Complaint of Want of Chivalry Complaint of "Insults" Complaint of "Illogicalities" Complaint of "Prejudices" The Familiar Suffragist Grievance of the Drunkard Voter and the Woman of Property Who is a Non-Voter The Grievance of Woman being Required to Obey Man-Made Laws. We pass from the argument from elementary natural rights to a different class of arguments intellectual grievances.

Almroth Wright - The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage

Foreign capitalists who own land or plant in the United States are unfranchised. We have large numbers of men working in trades and professions who never have been naturalized, but we do not dream that all these constitute an alien class of industrials. No distinction is made in business opportunity between the voter and non-voter.

Helen Kendrick Johnson - Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates