Political Quotes

“I first met Aaron Henry in 1963 when, as a law student and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, I went into the delta in Mississippi to work in the civil rights movement one summer. The civil rights movement had circled the South, but had not penetrated the 'Black Belt' deep in the Mississippi Delta. I met the President of the NAACP at the time, Aaron Henry. To be President of the NAACP in Mississippi was itself an act of conspicuous courage. It marked a man, both as a marked man and a brave man. The next year I graduated from law school and became one of the lawyers that summer for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, of which Aaron Henry was the chairman. I went to my files and discovered the brief I filed before the Credentials Committee on behalf of Aaron Henry and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to be admitted into my party, the Democratic Party, on behalf of these Mississippi citizens. What Aaron Henry and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party did is itself a milestone in the Nation's history, because it assured that both parties would now be open to delegates of all races.”