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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we…

— Anonymous

Voting rights are about the foundation of our democracy.

— Raphael Warnock

Democrats and Republicans reauthorized the 1965 Voting Rights Act unanimously in 2006. In two rulings since then, the Supreme Court has taken a sledgehammer…

— Jonathan Capehart

The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.

— Coretta Scott King

We passed the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, which restores and builds on key provisions of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act that was…

— Ralph Northam

“The right to vote is the foundation of our free society, and protecting that right is the single most important thing we can do…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

“The 1965 Voting Rights Act greatly extended federal power in the United States. A frankly regional measure, it took aim at Deep South states…

— James T. Patterson

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

— Lisa Murkowski

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

— Jon Ossoff

The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and…

— Marc Veasey

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

— Pankaj Tripathi