For Dr. King, voting rights were a means 'to make the world a better place to live decent and meaningful lives.'
,” powerfully emphasizes the moral demand for human dignity underlying King’s advocacy. But it misses one important element of King’s actual defense of voting rights: the indissoluble link between voting rights and all other rights, and the way that without the right to vote, citizens are disabled from voicing their concerns and from protecting themselves from abuse and injustice.
, and we will place at the head of the southern states governors who will, who have felt not only the tang of the human, but the glow of the Divine., and we will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court’s decision of May seventeenth, 1954.
A very similar argument can be found in a brilliant though underappreciated essay by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Wells-Barnett begins, in her very first sentence, by observing that “the Negro question has been present with the American people . . . since 1619.
With no sacredness of the ballot there can be no sacredness of human life itself. For if the strong can take the week man’s ballot when it suits his purpose to do so, he will take his life also. Having successfully swept aside all the constitutional safeguards to the ballot, it is the smallest of small matters for the South to sweep aside its own safeguards to human life . . .
Her message: what is happening in Illinois can happen everywhere in the country: if the enfranchisement of Blacks, as announced in the Constitution, is protected, then Blacks can use their voting power to contest and end racial injustice. A very big “if.” But one that she believes achievable.
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