Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 2, 2025
They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward.
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Stacey Abrams
Democratic · Georgia

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Abrams criticized efforts to remove Medgar Evers' name from Navy vessels.

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