Al Green actually said...

"This is in part why--a large part, I might add--I introduced H.J.Res. 64, calling for an annual day of to prevent the sanitization and whitewashing of our seminal sin: slavery."

"This would give us one agency within the government that oversees all of the various subsets and can bring all of this together for us."

"Although the practice of slavery may have been legal at one time, it was, without question, a profoundly immoral practice necessitating atonement."

"The enslavement of Africans was an epitome of evil, and its stain on human history cannot be sanitized with the passage of time."