“You would expect a drop every year in the level of discrimination, but the facts show there was no drop after '82. Extending the act in '82 was a good idea, this shows. And there's still a need.”
“This is kind of the untold story, the story doesn't grab national headlines. But if you look at what's happening in community after community, you see that when the numbers in minority communities reach a certain point and when they start to be interested in voting and politics, there's often resistance - and that resistance takes forms that violate the law.”