Arm Quote by Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the…

— Susan B. Anthony

I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

— Abraham Lincoln

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both. But I've never asked anyone to vote for me because I'm black…

— Ayanna Pressley

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows and I…

— Jaime Harrison

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an…

— Andrew Johnson

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

— Harold Washington

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

— Will Hurd

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to…

— Louis Farrakhan