Folks Quote by Unita Blackwell

People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others…

— John Lewis

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts…

— John Lewis

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts…

— John Lewis

“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

— Junius Williams

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“The 1965 Voting Rights Act greatly extended federal power in the United States. A frankly regional measure, it took aim at Deep South states…

— James T. Patterson

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have…

— Imran Khan

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

— Jesse Jackson