Political Quotes

“there is something about this Doug Jones. From the earliest stages in his life, he knew he was going to be a little bit different. When I grew up in East St. Louis, IL, it was expected that my childhood hero would be St. Louis Cardinals great Stan ``the Man'' Musial. But when you grew up in Fairfield, AL--also a baseball fan as a boy--it turned out that your childhood heroes included Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris, and Mickey Mantle. I am not sure how that goes over in the Deep South, to say that you are rooting for a team called the Yankees. But you did it, and you knew from the start, in your youth, that you were willing to strike out and do the radical, controversial thing. You were 9 years old in September 1963 when four members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in nearby Birmingham, killing four innocent, young girls who were not much older than you were. Fourteen years later, you were an idealistic, young law student who skipped class to sit in on the trial of the ringleader of that church bombing. You were mesmerized when listening to Alabama's then- attorney general--the lead prosecutor in the case--tell the jury: ``It is never too late for justice.'' The jury agreed and convicted the bomber. You would go on to marry Louise, and God blessed you with three beautiful children--two sons and a daughter. Yet the memories of those four little girls who were killed in their church never left you. In his eulogy for the four fallen girls, Dr.…”