Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman from Nevada, my good friend, Representative Horsford, for his eloquence and for his leadership, for anchoring today's extremely important CBC Special Order commemorating the 60th anniversary of this historic Supreme Court decision. I look forward to our continued partnership as we move forward dealing with issues of significance, not just to the districts that we represent in Nevada and in Brooklyn, New York, and parts of Queens, respectively, but all across the country. We really appreciate the opportunity that we have, each and every week, as part of the Congressional Black Caucus' Special Order, this hour of power, to come before the people of this great country and speak directly to them for 60 minutes about an issue of great importance. We have heard a lot about the seminal nature of the Supreme Court's decision in 1954, Brown v. The Board of Education, an important decision, striking down this principle of separate but equal, exposing it for the fraud that it was, recognizing that, inherently, this doctrine was just designed to hold up the notion of segregation in this country, under a false premise that you can have institutions of learning that were separate but equal. Inherently, these institutions were unequal, as the Supreme Court found.…”