Former Attorney General Eric Holder called for people to be "in the street" and demonstrating for voting rights after he was asked about "expecting" civil disobience by Rachel Maddow on Thursday's broadcast of 'Rachel Maddow Show' on MSNBC. Holder also accused Republicans of cheating in order to win. "You're seeing increasingly focused on more leaders getting arrested at the Senate office building, at the Supreme Court, at the White House. We're expecting this summer of direct action on voting rights to accelerate to where there will be considerable civil disobedience. People trying to set off a moral alarm here. What do you make of that strategically, as someone who has been a target of that in the past and someone who knows the people being targeted by these activists?" Maddow asked the former head of the Justice Department. "We shouldn't lose faith right now. Citizens can make a change. Citizens need to be in the streets. Citizens need to be demonstrating. Citizens need to be calling their representatives to demand the time of change that will make our democracy more fair," Holder said. "Raising the consciousness of people by demonstrating, by getting arrested, by doing the things that ended segregation," Holder continued. "Democrats will do as I said, just fine... they don't have to cheat. Republicans have to cheat in order to win and that's why they are in favor of partisan and racial gerrymandering," he said earlier.