Black Quote by Agnes Varda

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local…

— Edward Brooke

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

— Ron Paul

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts…

— John Lewis

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

— Marge Piercy

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts…

— John Lewis

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

— Terry Pratchett

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

— Terry Pratchett

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have…

— Jesse Jackson

Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner of their…

— Jonathan Capehart

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— Mike Espy

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the…

— Michelle Alexander

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious…

— Patrisse Cullors