Political Quotes

“I rise this afternoon in pursuit of justice for the Black men and Black women abducted, beaten, and killed during the segregation era in the American South and in retaliation for their participation in the civil rights movement. I rise today to ask that the Senate pass the Civil Rights Cold Case Investigations Support Act to secure justice and pursue truth for the victims of those atrocities, for the victims of civil rights cold cases, and for their families--justice for folks like Alphonso Harris, a member of the SCLC who was murdered in Albany, GA, in 1966; justice for Ernest Hunter, who was killed in a physical altercation at the Camden County jail in St. Marys, GA, in 1958; justice for Caleb Hill, Jr., who was dragged at night from a Wilkinson County jail in Middle, GA, in 1949 and shot to death by a lynch mob. Decades may have passed, but the pursuit of justice cannot and will not end. I sat down in Wilkinson County a few months ago with Caleb Hill, Jr.'s descendants, and in his name, they demand justice. By passing the Civil Rights Cold Case Investigations Support Act and by doing it with the support of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate, we will demonstrate that the United States will never rest in the pursuit of truth and justice for those who were lynched, abducted, beaten, killed, and assaulted in the segregation-era South and during the civil rights movement.…”