Democracy Quote by John Lewis

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

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are…

— Marc Lamont Hill

Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts…

— Barack Obama

It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists.…

— Darryl Pinckney

In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this…

— Nat Hentoff

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

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

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

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.

— Maxine Waters