Black Quote by Edward Brooke

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

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing,…

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

— Agnes Varda

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

I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has…

— Jeff Sessions

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

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

“And I know there are plenty of other "colored" things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon's meetings- the…

— Kathryn Stockett

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

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

— Bill Maher

Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the…

— Coretta Scott King

Blacks as a group have voted Democratic since the 1930s. The GOP has not courted them in any real way since the 1960s, focusing…

— Jacob Weisberg