Political Quotes

“I was privileged to be among those in Congress who traveled to Ghana in 2019 to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of the slave trade. History is so important, and Carter G. Woodson knew the importance of history. He knew that if a culture does not tell its own story, then that story won't get told. If you don't have a story, if you don't know what your parents did, your grandparents, and your foreparents did, if you don't know the accomplishments--of course, there are many accomplishments of Black people. If you don't know them, then you suffer a psychological disability, a collective psychological disability as a people. So, it is very important that we know our history because when we do, we understand the great accomplishments of our forefathers and our foremothers. We can be proud that despite the conditions under which they lived for 250 years in this country, slavery, and then another 90 years of Jim Crow, when we consider all of our accomplishments during that time, we can be proud.”