Alabama Quote by Luther Strange

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of…

— Carol Moseley Braun

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“States relied as well upon another mechanism of insidious discrimination to silence blacks and ensure that the rule of a few would shape the…

— Carol Anderson

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

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

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

The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change the other…

— Nelson Mandela

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private...…

— DeForest Soaries

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

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

Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing…

— Otis Moss III

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