My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I have long maintained that voting rights is more important than preserving any Senate procedural rule. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
There's a lot that can and should be done, not just in terms of elections administration with respect to the voting rights,… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
Do you care about climate justice? Are you about women's rights and women's reproductive rights? Do you care about civil liberties and… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
“Ex-offenders are expected to pay fines and court costs, and submit paperwork to multiple agencies in an effort to win back a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
With the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, our Commonwealth is creating a model for how states can provide comprehensive voter protections that… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
How exactly was Johnson able to pass the Great Society legislation and the Voting Rights Act? Of course, he was a savvy… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
“If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
No one is arguing that the entire Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 2 is the most important part of the act.… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
“Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The whole concept of European culture as a cornucopia from which things are freely given is misleading. It does not take a… — Bronisław Malinowski Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
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