Black Quote by Otis Moss III

“the black church helped African Americans survive the harshest forms of oppression and developed a revolutionary appeal for universal communal spirituality. The black church…

— Anonymous

The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John…

— Martin Luther King 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

I mean, when you think about politics and advocacy in general, so much of it was born out of black church and it really…

— Jasmine Crockett

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

— Jon Ossoff

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

Blacks as a group have voted Democratic since the 1930s. The GOP has not courted them in any real way since the 1960s, focusing…

— Jacob Weisberg

“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a moment; they…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

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

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights.…

— Noam Chomsky