TONIGHT AT 11PM: @NAACP_LDF ’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) will be a guest on The Daily Show with @Trevornoah. Watch live on @ComedyCentral.
WATCH: In under one minute, @Sifill_LDF gives a quick history lesson on LDF's founding and deep roots in the civil rights movement.
"...not only is the federal government not a recourse...they actually have a program to roll back civil rights and they also are some of the biggest instigators of a kind of anti-civil rights and...white supremacist ideology..."
.@Sifill_LDF on why we still need civil-rights lawyers:
"We represent those who are most marginalized, those who are at the bottom. We're actually the early warning system for our democracy."
"You have to keep pressing on a democracy, you have to keep pushing to move it forward, and you have to keep defending what you won in the past."--@Sifill_LDF
"Democracy is work...That's the price of living in a democracy, is active citizenship." --@Sifill_LDF
A few ways you can help #DefendDemocracy:
✅ Sign up to be a poll worker
✅ Make sure you're #PreparedtoVote
✅ Fill out the Census
voting.naacpldf.org
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