Right To Vote – Page 7

We must adopt reforms

We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their … Read more

How did the party

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote? Rand Paul

What gets lost is

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. Rand Paul

During the Great Depression

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. Rand Paul

To change history is

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote. Agnes Varda

Freedom has nothing to

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more disgusting

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. Ralph Waldo Emerson