Disappoint Quote by Jesse Jackson

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown,…

— Jan Schakowsky

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

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

Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows and I…

— Jaime Harrison

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

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country,…

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing up those…

— Rosario Dawson

The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue…

— John Cornyn

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that…

— Luis Gutierrez

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza