Noam Chomsky Voting Quotations

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.