Kamala Devi Harris

“ We urge the Senate to follow the House’s lead and pass the For the People Act, which includes measures like automatic voter registration that will help expand voting rights.
We also urge Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, to fully restore the Voting Rights Act for once and for all.
The American people want to vote. Have a right to vote. In fact, in the last election, more Americans voted than ever before.
Americans today want to vote for the same reason the Selma teachers marched to that courthouse: To have a say in their lives. ”

“ Even as our work to pass our American Rescue Plan gets under way, and while we get vaccines distributed across the country and deliver relief to those who are hurting from this pandemic, we have not taken our eye off the right to vote and the fight to maintain everyone’s right to vote. ”

“ You know, a month before the 1965 bridge crossing, a group of teachers—Black teachers—who taught their students about civics, but who couldn’t exercise their own right to vote—well, they took action. About a hundred teachers, union members, marching side by side, put their jobs on the line. ”