Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

— Jesse Jackson

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

We need to end voter suppression and protect access to the ballot. We need to teach the truth about white supremacy in our classrooms.…

— Cori Bush

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

— Thomas Paine

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

— Al Sharpton

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries…

— William H. Seward

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

— Sheryl WuDunn

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

— Abraham Lincoln

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need to protect voting rights.

— Josh Shapiro

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

We need to, in my opinion, to restore the full strength of the federal Voting Rights Act.

— Alex Padilla