Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1566) recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the pioneering of college students whose determination and nonviolent resistance led to the desegregation of lunch counters and places of public accommodation over a 5-year period. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 1566 Whereas, on February 1, 1960, 4 students, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond, attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina, walked into Woolworth's department store to purchase school supplies and then sat down at the store's lunch counter for coffee; Whereas they were refused service at the lunch counter and stayed seated at the counter until the store closed; Whereas when they were forced to leave the store, they still had not been served; Whereas these same students recruited other students from Bennett College for Women and Dudley High School, and after a few days of sit-ins, protestors filled almost all 66 places at Greensboro's Woolworth's lunch counter, attracting the attention of local reporters; Whereas the actions of these 4 North Carolina A&T students sparked a national sit-in movement; Whereas by the end of February 1960, there were nonviolent sit-ins in more than 30 communities in 7 States; Whereas sit-ins spread to Charlotte, Winston-Salem,…”