Political Quotes

“Martin Luther King once called to our Nation to ``forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.'' I rise today to honor a man who answered that call, a true leader who served as a public official in my State for more than 30 years, and who will always serve, to all who knew him and to those who will learn of him, as a model of character, principle, and dedication to doing right. The Honorable Herman M. Holloway, Sr., died yesterday at the age of 72; his death was a great public loss for all Delawareans, and a great personal loss for those of us who were lucky enough to know him as a friend. But I do not want to speak today about what we have lost, but of what we gained by the life of Herman Holloway, a noble life, a life truly well lived. Herman M. Holloway, Sr., was born in Wilmington, DE, on February 2, 1922; he attended Howard High School, in the days when it was the only high school in the State open to black students; the second-rate text books came from the waste baskets of the white schools, but the first-rate teachers and role models came, it seemed, from the hand of God.”