Adversaries Quote by Al Sharpton

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent…

— Rick Perlstein

“People who assume that voter ID would suppress the black vote have to believe that millions of blacks are uniquely incompetent citizens. Few things…

— Dennis Prager

The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is insulting.

— Mark Robinson

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper…

— J. C. Watts

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists.…

— Darryl Pinckney

We have to do what they did in Alabama, which is a data-centric campaign that identifies black voters that haven't voted in a while…

— Mike Espy

That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it,…

— Edwin Meese

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

— Adam Cohen

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less…

— Michelle Alexander

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim Crow…These figures…

— Michelle Alexander

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

— Bill Maher