“It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation” RightsDemocratCivil RightsLegislation Author:Allen West
“When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.” ThinkingShouldRightsRepublicanVoteDemocratProtectionVotingVotersFraudCrowdedRight To VotePollingVoter Fraud Author:Christine Pelosi
“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.” TryingSeemsTodayPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyDemocracyIssuesRightsPolicyRepublicanEqualEthicsVoteStrategyDemocratIdeologyGuaranteesVotingFree SpeechPolitical PartiesEqual RightsPartisansRight To VotePartisanship Author:Donna Brazile
“I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.” FirstsHumansMotherBornWifeRightsDemocratHuman RightsLawyerWomens RightsSenatorsFirst Lady Book:Living History Source: Living History
“The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.” GivingHas BeensStatesNamesRightsDangerousGiving UpPoliceBillsDemocratNotionTerrorTerroristAbsurdVotingRegimesProtectedLegislationFortitudeIntimidatedBill Of RightsPolice StateMuslim TerroristsIntestinal Fortitude Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.” WantTryingFirstsNextRightsCrimeRepublicanDemocratAliensVotingPlotIllegalConspiracyAccusedRight To VoteIllegal Aliens Author:Argus Hamilton
“Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.” WellsRememberPartyRightsPolicyTypeMajorsDemocraticDemocratSouthCongressCivil RightsRacistAlliesCommitteesDemocratic PartyFranklinSeniority Author:William A. Rusher
“I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil rights movement and after that became of course like a lot of blacks in the South a staunch Democrat.” SoulPoliticalCoursesRightsMovementDemocratSouthCivil RightsGrandmotherBlessPassiveSupporterMy GrandmotherCivil Rights MovementGod BlessAlabama Author:Killer Mike
“Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.” WayRightsMovementRepublicanDemocratCongressCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLegislationCivil Rights MovementEmancipationProclamationEmancipation Proclamation Author:Rafael Cruz