American Quote by Marc Veasey

“The 1965 Voting Rights Act greatly extended federal power in the United States. A frankly regional measure, it took aim at Deep South states…

— James T. Patterson

Democrats and Republicans reauthorized the 1965 Voting Rights Act unanimously in 2006. In two rulings since then, the Supreme Court has taken a sledgehammer…

— Jonathan Capehart

I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of our country [America], that…

— Hillary Clinton

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect…

— Aberjhani

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning…

— Sidney Blumenthal

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

We passed the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, which restores and builds on key provisions of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act that was…

— Ralph Northam

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

— Lisa Murkowski

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

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal…

— Harry Browne

“For almost a century after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Court followed this narrow reading of the Equal Protection Clause and refused to use it…

— Erwin Chemerinsky

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