Political Quotes

“first let me say that it was indeed a pleasure having all of my colleagues in the Seventh Congressional District in Alabama. I represent three major cities in Alabama, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, and those were the cities where most of the civil rights activities in the Nation took place, and the surrounding areas, of course. For the last 4 years, we have been going, Members of Congress, to Alabama, participating in what we call a renewal demonstration; one that shows our commitment to the future. It also shows that we are not satisfied with the past, but presently every time we go, every time there are such activities, it highlights the wrongs of the past but it also shows a brightness for the future. The good thing about our presence there, we bring the spotlight of the Nation to Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, and problems of the past. But when we highlight problems of the past, we also show lingering problems that are still with us. This time when I crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I said to myself that there are so many bridges in our lives that need to be crossed. We still have in this country the racial divide.”