Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"It is technically impossible to write an anti-speech code that cannot be twisted against speech nobody means to bar. It has been tried and tried and tried."

"I simply say as a black woman and ask them to remember that Frederick Douglass... was able in even that society to denounce slavery all over the United States."

"If, in fact, you're going to possess--if a jurisdiction is going to possess marijuana, should it not at least have the opportunity to keep marijuana out of the hands of children?"

"I worry that making a substance widely available and legal increases acceptance of it and increases use among youth."