Political Quotes

“I rise today to talk about land loss in the black community. A recent Associated Press investigative report titled ``Torn From the Land'' documented how land has been unjustly taken from African Americans over the years and alerted the world to the alarming declining trend in black land ownership. America's seventh President, Andrew Jackson, said in his July 10, 1832, bank veto message to the United States Senate, ``Every man is entitled to protection by laws. But when the laws undertake to add artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means for securing like favor to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.'' Unfortunately, at the time these words were uttered they were not applicable to African Americans. However, even Andrew Jackson, a white Southern aristocrat and slave owner himself, realized that in order for this Nation to be a great place, our Nation's resources must be equally distributed among all classes of Americans.”