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Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.