Political Quotes

“51 years ago today the Supreme Court, just across the street from the Senate Chamber, issued one of its most famous rulings in the history of the United States of America. The ruling was Brown v. Board of Education. It may have been one of the most courageous decisions ever issued by the Court. It rejected the cruel legal fiction of separate but equal and said that in the United States of America there would be no second-class citizens. What an amazing victory for justice. But for some time, in some States, the Brown decision remained a victory on paper only. In much of the United States, in the Deep South, the Brown decision was met with massive resistance. Governors refused to obey the court ruling. Three years after that court decision, 48 years ago today, on May 17, 1957, 36,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, for the first march on Washington. This is a photo of that march. We all know about the famous 1963 march, but the 1957 gathering was really the forerunner to that 1963 march. In those days, in 1957, it was known as a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, DC. Take a look at some of the people who gathered on that day 48 years ago. Dr. Martin Luther King, 29 years of age, was among those who gathered to speak. His leadership had been tested by the crucible of the Montgomery bus boycott.…”