Aasif Mandvi Quotes

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

Negroes could not vote in those days. When I went to Massachusetts and ran for office, it was the first time in my life that I ever voted.

Negro suffrage is political arsenic. If it is not, why do not the free States open wide their throats and gulp down the graceful and invigorating draught?

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

The great majority of negroes in the South who do not vote, do not care to vote and would not know for what to vote if they could.

In my home county—Lowndes County, Alabama--in 1964 Blacks were 80 percent of the population. Not one Black was registered to vote—Not one!!!

I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test.

You gotta fight for your right to vote!

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

I don't sign for white people.

Paul Ryan, was saying [on election 2016 "I don't see any evidence of systemic fraud."

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

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.

I am not ... in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them ... to intermarry with white people.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

Why can a Communist eat at a lunch counter in Selma, Alabama while a Black American veteran cannot?

Lyndon Johnson used to call his chauffer “Boy,” but he passed the greatest Civil Rights bill in the history of the company.