Cory Booker: “this week marks the 65th anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision of Brown v. Board of Education. In Brown…”

“this week marks the 65th anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision of Brown v. Board of Education. In Brown, the Justices recognized a profound, moral wrong tearing at the soul of this country--racial segregation in our Nation's schools. They held fast to the principle inscribed above the entrance to the Supreme Court, ``Equal Justice Under Law,'' and they appealed to a self-evident truth, but not yet realized by our Founding documents, that equal means equal. Of course, the Supreme Court's decision in Brown didn't stand alone. We needed civil rights activists like Thurgood Marshall, who had built toward this moment to carry the torch forward. We needed a Congress and a White House that would enshrine protections for civil rights, voting rights, and housing rights into law. We needed courts committed to this principle that racism and White supremacy could no longer hide behind the shield of law. Most of all, we needed the power of the people fiercely demanding equality--students like the Little Rock Nine, who courageously, in the face of State-sponsored hostility, walked through the doors of Little Rock Central High School to jeers and taunts and threats; people like John Lewis, who marched and bled on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma; folks like Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, who lost their lives together in the pursuit of justice; and leaders like King, who pointed us to the mountaintop. Brown v.…”