Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and I thank him for leading this important hour tonight. Madam Speaker, I rise today with my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus and with Americans from our great country because it is time to root out racism. While racism has, tragically, been a part of the American story--from Jamestown to Jim Crow; to the Little Rock Nine, whose 60th anniversary is today--in 2017, we are seeing it rise in new and disturbing ways. Right now, there is a sham, ``Presidential voting commission,'' plotting to turn back the clock on our voting rights. Right now, African Americans live in fear that they will be stricken down, unjustly, because of the color of their skin. Right now there is an un-American and unconstitutional Muslim ban preventing families from reuniting. Right now the Attorney General is undoing consent decrees and pouring billions of tax dollars into the for-profit prison industry. Right now there are rabid racists, White nationalists, and White supremacists that this administration won't denounce. And right now our President refuses to blame White supremacists for racially motivated killings in Charlottesville. The individuals, who inspired this bigoted violence, he called ``some very fine people.'' Just this weekend, we saw President Trump attack athletes for exercising their First Amendment rights; using terms like ``you people'' and ``those people'' in an effort to further divide us.…”