Black Voting Quotes

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

Junius Williams

#2. It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.

Darryl Pinckney

#3. Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?

Kim Wilde

#4. In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Lewis Black

#5. Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

Jeremy Seabrook

#6. Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Alveda King

#7. I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

Pattie Boyd

#8. My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

Felicia Day

#9. Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

Otis Moss III

#10. What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

Bill Maher

#11. I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Edward Brooke

#12. I scarcely remember counting upon happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

John Keats

#13. Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Emmitt Smith

#14. A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders,

J. C. Watts

#15. I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

Louis Farrakhan

#16. Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

Warren G. Harding

#17. Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

Liu Bei

#18. It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#19. Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Juan Williams

#20. Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#21. You notice that all the minorities are going to be voting for Barack Obama because he's a minority. He's going to be their hero; he's going to be their white knight if you will, or in this case black knight.

Frosty Wooldridge

#22. It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

Adrian Rogers

#23. I know, I've never had boobs before!

Olivia Wilde

#24. I do not fear, for I am protected; I do not feel superior, for I know the cut of being judged. We are all human, in all the ways that matter - but one would not know that for all the ways we become blind to each other, for the smallest trivialities.

Marjorie M. Liu

#25. Why kill two birds with one stone when you could kill ten with a boulder?

Ella Summers

#26. You should check to see if anyone else is using that, because let me tell you, me and another guy are both called Hawkeye, and it's a real pain.

Kelly Thompson

#27. Set out, pilgrim. Set out into the freedom and the wandering. Find your people. God is much bigger, wilder, more generous, and more wonderful than you imagined.

Sarah Bessey