Men Quote by John Lewis

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

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to…

— John Lewis

Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870, the year…

— Michelle Alexander

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the…

— Michelle Alexander

The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for Congress from…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether…

— Marc Lamont Hill

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

— Jesse Jackson

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have…

— Jesse Jackson

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until…

— John Lewis

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

There's something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They've paid…

— Martin Luther King III