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

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

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

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.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.