Arrested Quote by John Lewis

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

— Unita Blackwell

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

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

— Junius Williams

People need to realize that people have died for your vote.

— David Hogg

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn't be registered to vote. Look, if nothing else, people are going to be watching…

— Donald Trump

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

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

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

— Emmylou Harris

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