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

"I take that as the functionally equivalent to affirmative action, which I enforced as a part of the 1964 Equal Employment Opportunity Act."