Jesse Jackson Quotes

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

What they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other property of American citizens, but something much more valuable—their most precious heritage, the right to vote in a free election.

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

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.

You've got to jump through all kinds of hoops to vote in America.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

… the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.