Candidates Quote by Tim Kaine

“I think Republicans should fight for the black vote and blacks should fight for a place in the Republican Party, just as they fought…

— Bruce Bartlett

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

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

— Lester Holt

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan…

— Luis Gutierrez

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks…

— Richard Lamm

I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order…

— Howard Dean

I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race. I think…

— Charles Murray

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

Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal…

— Norah Vincent

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

— Winnie Byanyima

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or…

— Carol Moseley Braun