Political Quotes

“I want to thank my friend and colleague, Congressman Allred, for his leadership in the fight to protect the fundamental right to vote and to save our ailing democracy. It has been an honor working with him, with Congresswoman Terri Sewell, and with Congressman John Sarbanes over the past year on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. As you just heard, we are living through the worst assault on the right to vote since the Jim Crow era. And yesterday, on the Senate floor, white nationalists used the Jim Crow filibuster to block voting rights legislation. But they did not win the contest for the soul of our Nation. I rise to affirm that we the people aren't giving up that easily. We never give up. We the people didn't give up when, after we finally ended the scourge of slavery in this Nation, white nationalists fought back, violently unraveling Reconstruction, throwing duly elected Black people out of office, and barring Black voters from the voting booth for generations. We responded by organizing. Progress came in fits. It took us nearly a century, but progress came. It came in the courtroom where Thurgood Marshall helped to end a century of legalized segregation. It came on the streets, where the March on Washington and the Montgomery bus boycott produced meaningful social change.…”