Alabama Quote by Mike Espy

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

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— Mike Espy

There have been efforts in recent years and as recently as this past election with it being a deliberate and systematic attempt to suppress…

— John Lewis

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

We have to create a coalition of black voters and white voters all over Mississippi who believe in vision of a more modern Mississippi.

— Mike Espy

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

They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've controlled these…

— Donald Trump

“They all followed Mississippi’s example, instituting race-veiled voting restrictions, from literacy tests to poll taxes, that would purge their voting rolls of the remaining…

— Ibram X. Kendi

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two…

— Allen West

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

The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

— Fannie Lou Hamer