Political Quotes

“Mr. President, my parents met when they were graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s when they were active in the civil rights movement. In fact, my sister and I joke that we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent their full time marching and shouting for this thing called justice. I was part of only the second class to integrate Berkeley, CA, public schools almost two decades after the U.S. Supreme Court declared that separate was inherently unequal in the great case of Brown v. Board of Education--a case, I might add, that was supported by an amicus brief from the then U.S. Attorney General. In fact, it was the lawyers in Brown v. Board of Education--Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Constance Baker Motley--who inspired me at a young age to become a lawyer. Simply put, it is likely that had the U.S. Supreme Court not decided the way it did in Brown v. Board of Education, I would not be standing here as a Member of the U.S. Senate. So then, as a direct beneficiary of landmark rulings by the U.S. judicial system and the American judicial system, I am acutely aware of the lasting and profound impact our courts can have on the everyday lives of Americans. It is with a deep sense of respect and admiration for the role of our justice system that I rise to oppose the nomination of Senator Sessions to be the next Attorney General of the United States.…”