Political Quotes

“Mr. President, 60 years ago last week, on Monday, August 28, hundreds of thousands of men and women descended on our Nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march has become synonymous with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ``I Have a Dream'' speech, which he delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and has become a central rallying theme for the civil rights movement. Dr. King was prophetic in his remarks, beginning by saying that the day ``will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.'' To this day, it is the standard by which every other march and rally in Washington is judged. I thank all the Marylanders who attended the march and wanted to give a special thanks to those who joined the reenactment last week in Annapolis, which was kicked off by the Morgan State Marching Band. Had he lived to see the progress that has been made, and sometimes lost, six decades later, I am confident that Dr. King would have been uneasy and deeply frustrated that we are still fighting many of the same battles against bigotry and racism as well as economic repression and hate-fueled gun violence. Yet I am sure he would have leaned into the words he spoke on March 31, 1968, just days before his assassination, when he said: We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Of course, Dr.…”