Arms Quote by Susan B. Anthony

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

— 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 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

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

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

— Angelina Grimke

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

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the…

— Paul Robeson

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

— Anonymous

I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

— Evan Mecham

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her…

— Common