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Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in…

— Elizabeth Flock

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

— Tavis Smiley

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

They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've controlled these…

— Donald Trump

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

During the Jim Crow era, we know that racially targeted and racially motivated voter suppression was often blatant. Legislators adapted overtly racist policies like…

— Alex Padilla

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the…

— Ron Paul

If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help us. And…

— Marc Lamont Hill

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to block black…

— Joe Morton

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

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in…

— Bill Ayers