Law Quote by Nelson Mandela

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

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

In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms…

— James Forman, Jr

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment.…

— Henry Flynt

Weirdly enough, the best thing that ever happened to black people in the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J. Simpson verdict because…

— Ann Coulter

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Alabama and other states had a terrible record in terms of depriving people of their right to vote, making it difficult for them to…

— Luther Strange

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

— Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

— Lisa Murkowski