"They must pass the For The People Act."
"I think a big reason that this march is happening in Texas is that you`re absolutely right, voter suppression existed long before this current attempt. In fact, Texas has become over the years the tou..."
"The people of the future are going to look back on those of us alive with the opportunity to do something about the erosion of voting rights and the very possible destruction of our democracy in 2021."
"He wants to be on the right side of history. The people of the future are going to look back on those of us alive with the opportunity to do something about the erosion of voting rights and the very p..."
"We've got to do that right now in 2021 and we've got to encourage. And I think, also, in the spirit of Bob Moses push a little bit on President Biden to not only diagnose the problems, this unpreceden..."
"Those Texas legislators in D.C. have already begun the important work of doing that, providing that moral pressure and leverage on the U.S. Senate and President Biden for that matter to pass the for t..."
"Seven million eligible Texans did not vote in the 2020 election and it was not for lack of love of democracy. It`s the voter suppression obstacles placed in their way."
"To the Texas Democrats in Washington, D.C., we are so proud of you. Not only have you stopped the latest attack on voting rights in Texas, but your presence in D.C. is the moral leverage necessary to ..."
"He connected all the dots, the big lie, the insurrection on the 6th of January, all these attempts in different state legislatures to make it harder for people to vote."
"What we need is voting rights legislation, and we need the For the People Act specifically."
"Let us make an exception for democracy. That`s all we`re asking for. Not for Democrats, not for Republicans but for America in this 245-year and counting experiment."
"If we don`t have voting rights, if we don`t have democracy, then anything else that we care about, an economy that works for everyone, health care for all, racial justice, confronting climate change b..."