50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act | Hillary Clinton

Fifty years ago the Voting Rights Act was signed into law.

I came of age as the Civil Rights Movement was beginning to not only change laws but change hearts.

Generations of Americans fought and marched and organized and prayed, to expand the circle of freedom

and opportunity.

The six hundred marchers that crossed that bridge, what they fought for

for the Voting Rights Act, that's under attack right now.

The Court seems like it has decided to kill this pillar of the Voting Rights Act today.

What is happening, is a sweeping effort to dis-empower and disenfranchise people of color,

poor people, and young people from one end of our country to the other.

We should do everything we can to make it easier for every citizen to vote.

We should set a standard across our country of at least twenty days of early in-person voting everywhere.

Now yes, this is about Democracy but it's also about dignity.

to march just as far, to organize just as well, to speak out just as loudly and to vote every chance we get

for the kid of future we want.