Political Quotes

“Thank you to my colleague. Thank you so much, Mr. Horsford from Nevada, for leading us in this Congressional Black Caucus Special Order hour, and also to my colleague from New York (Mr. Jeffries), thank you for your leadership. It is an honor for me to be here, not only as a Member of Congress, but someone who lived through our topic tonight. If we pause for a moment and could go back in history, that unanimous opinion written by Chief Justice Early Warren held that ``separate educational facilities are inherently unequal'' and that segregation of schools violates the 14th and Fifth Amendments of the United States Constitution. This decision, Mr. Speaker, signaled an end to the State-sanctioned segregation of public schools in the United States, making it unlawful to deny access to public facilities on the basis of race. Striking down segregation in our Nation's public schools provided a major catalyst for the civil rights movement and made advances in desegregating housing, public accommodations, and institutions of higher education possible. On the anniversary of this landmark decision, we acknowledge and applaud those who endured and lived through those days of crises so all Americans could enjoy the right to vote, the right to equal protection of law. It is the Brown story, but it could have been, as we heard from Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the Barbara Lee story.…”