Political Quotes

“41 years--that is how long it has been since the Voting Rights Act was first enacted in 1965, and we have come a long way in those 41 years. That much was made clear to me on a recent visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, just about 3 weeks ago with President Bush and Dr. Ben Hooks, a renowned civil rights leader, a former executive director of the NAACP for 14 or 15 years a personal friend of myself and my distinguished colleague from Tennessee who is with me on the floor, Lamar Alexander. Together we visited the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lorraine Motel, which over the past several decades has developed into a wonderful, inspiring civil rights museum. As we walked through that museum with Dr. Hooks, in his voice could one capture that sensitivity, that inspiration, some sadness as we walked through, and he recounted the events surrounding that time, but history came alive. It was an ugly moment in our collective history and certainly not America's finest hour, but the museum reinforced the impressions I had. It strikes your conscience.…”