Voting Rights Act Quotes

#1. I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

Dick Gephardt

#2. Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Rand Paul

#4. The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue to drive divisions and create phony narratives.

John Cornyn

#5. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

Charles B. Rangel

#6. It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Henry Rollins

#7. Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act.

Patrick Leahy

#8. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

Aberjhani

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

Junius Williams

#10. No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Anthony Kennedy

#11. From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

Kathleen Sebelius

#12. Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

Elijah Cummings

#13. Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Marty Meehan

#14. It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.

Alma Adams

#15. Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

Andrew Young

#16. I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan]

Lyndon B. Johnson

#17. I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

Matthias Schoenaerts

#18. The biggest thing is no matter what level I've played at, there is something I can bring to them.

Cat Osterman

#19. There were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently kind, candid, and vulnerable - with unsettling reminders, though, that their ability to flip from one to the other is what ultimately makes them deadly.

Andre Aciman

#20. Whether romance existed in him or not, sentimentality had no place at all.

Dorothy Dunnett

#21. I love you - but don't touch me.

Janet Jackson

#22. And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.

Jody Hedlund

#23. I love you. He whispered it, his voice weighed down with the deep emotion of the million times he had tried to tell me.

Rebecca Ethington

#24. I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps families in need. It's not a government handout. If anything, it's a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.

Cory Booker

#25. My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!

Corin Nemec

#26. Take 3 ~ 4 times in one day, the mixture of one tablespoon of honey, 2 tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar and 8 ounces of water.

Sonia

#27. I have not stepped into another jail, not yet, but I can feel the key in the lock, threatening to turn.

Victoria Aveyard

#28. This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

Stephanie Cutter

#29. Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation.

Bella Forrest

#30. [T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. I'm asking about the kid," Root said. "What does she get out of it?"
"My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do," Pennant said. "You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?

Walter Kaylin

#32. Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.

Beau Bridges

#33. Packing is chiefly planning
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh