Quotes About Discrimination

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.

Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.

End racial and ethnic gerrymandering, stop voter I.D. laws that seek to suppress voters of color, and make sure everyone can add their voice and their vote to this great democracy.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

2021 is starting to look like 1961 - a segregated America.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country.

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.