Political Quotes

“Madam President, last Monday, George Floyd died in the hands of a Minnesota police officer. This senseless death left Americans reeling, most of all because there have been too many George Floyds and Breonna Taylors and Ahmaud Arberys. As a nation, we need to work to ensure that what happened last Monday in Minneapolis never happens again and that the perpetrators of crimes like this one are held accountable and brought to justice. We also need to acknowledge how deeply many of our fellow citizens are suffering in the wake of George Floyd's senseless death. A lot of our fellow Americans are afraid right now, shaken by another death and worried that that could easily have been their son or husband or brother. Too many Americans feel unsafe in their own communities, and we need to listen to them with humility, to listen to those whose experience of America has often been very different from many of ours. In the wake of George Floyd's death, Americans took to the streets and cities across the country to express their outrage. They joined a powerful tradition and exercised a cherished right. Peaceful protest is an American institution, and as the civil rights movement demonstrated, a powerful agent for change. These protests aren't relegated to big cities. We are seeing them in towns across South Dakota and in many other places in the United States. Unfortunately, though, there has also been counterproductive and unnecessary violence.…”