Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 494) was agreed to. The preamble was agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows: S. Res. 494 Whereas, Ida B. Wells was born on July 16 1862, and died March 25, 1931; Whereas in 1884, Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat on a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company train because of her skin color; Whereas in 1889, Ida B. Wells became co-owner and editor of Free Speech and Headlight, an anti-segregationist newspaper based in Memphis, Tennessee that published articles about racial injustice; Whereas Ida B. Wells conducted investigative journalism about the practice of lynching, printing many articles in an effort to combat this practice; Whereas Ida B. Wells worked with Frederick Douglass and other Black leaders in organizing a boycott of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; Whereas in 1893, Ida B. Wells began working with the Chicago Conservator, the oldest African-American newspaper in the city; Whereas Ida B. Wells formed the Women's Era Club, the first civic organization for African-American women which later became the Ida B. Wells Club in honor of its founder; Whereas Ida B.…”