Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"There is no question that it had an enormous effect on the rights of African Americans to vote, especially in the South."

"Mr. Chairman, this is an important hearing to be held."

"We have had success from other equality acts passed; largely, the ones in the 1960's."

"We finally got to 1968--Fair Housing Act--when there was the great tragedy of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr."