Political Quotes

“Bill Lann Lee is the son of Chinese immigrants who came to this country to New York virtually penniless. His mother and father started a hand laundry. He and his brother, who is now a Baptist minister, worked in that laundry with their parents. His mother sat, as he said, in a front window of the laundry every day at a sewing machine. His father was back doing washing and ironing, refusing, incidentally, to teach his sons how to iron. That's the major skill in a hand laundry. He didn't want his sons to know how to iron. He didn't want them to work there. He wanted them to think beyond the laundry.”