African american Quote by Rafael Cruz

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most…

— Ann Coulter

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger…

— Herman Cain

“…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s…

— Elbert Guillory

Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil…

— William A. Rusher

Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony…

— Margaret Hoover

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats,…

— Gloria Steinem

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

— Rand Paul

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the…

— Michael Steele

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class…

— Pete du Pont

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is…

— Elbert Guillory