Political Quotes

“I rise today to say that, as I have often thought, justice is a curious thing. She has been poked and prodded, detained and defaced, and her piercing light is too often hidden from view. Justice had a tough time in Montgomery and Selma, and she took a sore drumming alongside Susan B. Anthony and the other fighters for women's suffrage. If you asked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer where justice was during those cold nights in jail in 1963, they might have said that she was nowhere to be found. But inevitably and incredibly justice always seems to find her way. She creeps into the dark spots of our history. She rears her head where she is not wanted. And, eventually, she causes the barriers meant to hold her back to crack and crumble, under the collective weight of those who fight for her cause. On January 25, 1966, justice was at it again. It was on that date after a storied career of educational success, fervent legal advocacy, and legislative accomplishments that Constance Baker Motley became the first African-American woman appointed to the Federal judiciary. Judge Motley passed away on September 28, 2005, at the age of 84. She is survived by her husband Joel, a son, three sisters and a brother. I rise today to honor her and the concept of justice for which she fought all her life. Constance Baker was born on September 14, 1921, in New Haven, CT. Her father was a chef for an exclusive club at Yale, and her mother was active in the NAACP.…”