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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my…

— Wavy Gravy

“The urban renewers had struck again. They'd evicted me, a fortune-teller, and a bookie from the corner of Mass. Ave. and Boylston, moved in…

— Robert B. Parker

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do,…

— Bobby Jindal

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

This no longer a state of mind it's a reality, this is the beginning of an opportunity that hasn't presented itself in Collin County…

— Florence Shapiro

“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can’t be easily blamed on the…

— Thomas Frank

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.”

— Victoria Kahler

“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened only in…

— Monica Hesse

There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may…

— Studs Terkel

“Sometimes these non-wealthy non-Northeasterners (“white trash”) manage to stumble out of their shantytowns and trailer parks and Napa Valleys in order to vote, but…

— C.H. Dalton

“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

— Junius Williams