Political Quotes

“I would like to share a couple of words from the Cincinnati Inquirer. This is the beautifully written Cincinnati Inquirer editorial about Reverend Shuttlesworth: He once told the Tampa Tribune it helped to have a ``little divine insanity--that's when you're willing to suffer and die for something.'' They also wrote: Perhaps nowhere is his ultimate triumph more evident than in the renaming of the Birmingham airport to the Birmingham- Shuttlesworth International Airport--a public tribute in a city where once a Ku Klux Klan member who was a police officer warned him to get out of town as fast as he could. Needless to say, the airport was named after Reverend Shuttlesworth, not after the KKK police officer. It was an honor to get to know Reverend Shuttlesworth and to learn from him. In 1998, I first met this historic figure of the civil rights movement--unknown to far too many people--in Selma, AL, during a pilgrimage with Congressman John Lewis, who was beaten perhaps more than anybody in the civil rights movement. It was an opportunity to spend some time with Reverend Shuttlesworth in Selma in the late 1990s. I visited his church in 2006.…”