… to pick somebody else's cotton got to pick her son to be a United States senator. And so this story of fighting for voting rights doesn't feel distant to me. We've only been a democracy in a real sense since 1965. And what it seems to me we are witnessing in real time is an assault on those basic voting rights. And it's been stepped up over the last few years. (02:38–02:43)
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Asserts that the United States has only been a true democracy since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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