We decided to celebrate the Voting Rights Act by having an African American run in every ward in the city.

The Voting Rights Act was really the whole core of the civil rights movement. It made a tremendous improvement, ... There was a new recognition of black citizenship.

[The requirement] is most likely to prevent Georgia's elderly, poor and African-American voters from voting, ... For those citizens, the character and magnitude of their injury - the loss of their right to vote - is undeniably demoralizing and extreme.

If there's not a major push for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, many of the advances we've seen in the past two decades will be severely undermined.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Excuse me. We don't want to interrupt, but we want to thank the African-American Student Affairs group for putting this on. We wouldn't have this if it weren't for you.