Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of my incredible constituents, Mrs. Daisy Murray, who will be celebrating her 104th birthday on Monday, April 11. Mrs. Murray has been a resident of San Leandro for more than 30 years and has made many wonderful contributions to our East Bay community. Mrs. Daisy Murray was born in 1919 to a family that was only a few generations removed from slavery, as her grandmother was the daughter of an enslaved person. Mrs. Murray's parents faced racism and violence living in the South, and when they got married, they relocated to Ohio, where Ms. Daisy was born and raised. I think it was in the mid-1970s, Mrs. Murray founded the Sojourner Truth Manor, the first affordable residency for adults and seniors in the country created by an African-American businesswoman. I worked very hard on this when I was a student at Mills College, and I remember a woman we called Ms. Dorothy, worked with Mrs. Murray on this. It is still a thriving community, the affordable housing community. It is located in Oakland on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It still exists to this day, and it has housed generations of adults and seniors in need. On behalf of the 13th Congressional District of California, I want to thank Mrs. Daisy Murray for her many good works and everything that she has done to enrich our East Bay community. I wish her a happy 104th birthday. Happy birthday, Mrs. Daisy Murray. ____________________”