Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands for her leadership. It is imperative that we use our platform as Members of Congress to highlight the crisis of mental illness. So often when we talk about gun violence, it leaves the crisis of gun violence and goes to mental illness; but we have not, as America, taken the steps we need to take. Black and African American communities, we are seeing 13.2 percent of the U.S. population who are identified as Black or African American; of those, 16 percent has a diagnosed mental illness in the past year. I had a friend of mine, she is a therapist, and we had a roundtable in the community that I hosted on mental illness. The T-shirt she wears, says: ``I'm an African American. I go to church. I believe in God. And I see my therapist.'' So often in our community you hear the words, ``just pray about it and God will fix it.'' But you don't say that to someone who has heart disease. Yes, we pray and, yes, we believe in God, but we also must get the healthcare we need. Mental health is an issue that we are facing.…”