Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

The Fifteenth Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

This nation ... has not yet reached the point of giving all men their rights by a suffrage amendment; three-fourths of the States are not ready

The post–Civil War Radical Republicans, as a group, cared very little for the black vote until they came to believe that it would help to secure their position ... against a Democratic resurgence. Once convinced that they would profit from the black vote, they passed the Fifteenth Amendment

The Civil Rights Bill affords the blacks an equal right, nothing more ... to make and enforce contracts [etc.] ... It merely provides safeguards to shield them from wrong and outrage and to protect them in the enjoyment of the right to exist

The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.

Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land to farm. Ultimately, the GOP abolished slavery, then gave freedmen the vote so they could protect their own economic interests.

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

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

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.

If you desire negro citizenship, if you desire them to vote on an equality with yourselves, and to make them eligible to office, to serve on juries, and to adjudge your rights, then support Mr. Lincoln and the Black Republican party.

Is there a single man among you who would vote for negro suffrage if he believed the negroes would vote the Democratic ticket? Not one, and you know it.

It did not improve the feeling of the defeated classes of the South to contemplate, at first, the amendments of the Constitution of the United States, which not only established the freedom of the slave, but established his citizenship beyond question, and putting into his hands the ballot, making him the political equal of his former owner. Objecting not only to the law, but to that practice under it, … the former master class became greatly exasperated, and resolving, if possible, to overcome this condition of things, organized bands of "White-liners," "Ku-Klux," and "Bull-dozers," and entered upon that systematic warfare upon Republicans, white and colored, which, resulting in violence, intimidation and murder, has necessitated the use of the army to maintain the peace, and protect the loyal people of the South against that domestic violence, which at times seemed to threaten utter destruction, interfering even with legislatures, and disturbing the operations of the Government.

The law has made the Negro equal, but man has not.

The right to vote with no ifs, ands, or buts, that's the key. When the Negroes get that, they'll have every politician, north and south, east and west, kissing their ass, begging for their support.

Declare for such an amendment of the Constitution as will positively prohibit African slavery in the United States.

Votes for women didn’t come until the 1920’s. Votes for Blacks didn’t effectively come until the 1960’s.

I desire to secure every privilege and every right to every citizen in the United States…. I understand the amendment ... to authorize Congress to establish uniform laws throughout the United States upon the subject named, the protection of life, liberty, and property. I am unwilling that Congress shall have any such power