Amendments Quote by 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

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

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

Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the…

— Michelle Alexander

“At least on paper, Congress had dramatically enlarged federal power and black rights. In December 1866 only about 0.5 percent of black adult males…

— Richard White

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less…

— Michelle Alexander

“Fifteenth Amendment ensured that all Americans could vote irrespective of their race. However, the earlier willingness to pass laws that would see Blacks as…

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

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

— Jesse Jackson

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

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown,…

— Jan Schakowsky

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