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."

"It pains me, I have to say, when I hear of African-American students in particular claiming about hurt feelings when it comes to speech."

"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?"