Political Quotes

“And still I rise, in the spirit of Shirley Chisholm. I rise unbought and unbossed, a liberated Democrat. And I rise today, Mr. Speaker, with a great deal of pain in my heart. I am saddened. And I am, quite frankly, very, very disgusted and disappointed. I saw a news story this morning that brought me to tears. I could not believe what I saw and I heard. I would like to share now some passages from a story in The New York Times that relate to what I saw this morning, what I heard this morning. I would ask that persons who are very sensitive to things involving pain and suffering be mindful of what I am about to do and might govern themselves appropriately because this is very painful to hear and very sad to understand that it actually occurred. This story is styled ``Footage Shows Louisiana Troopers Punching and Dragging Man Who Died.'' I was born in Louisiana, in New Orleans. I have friends there. I have some sense of what the State is like, but even this exceeds some of what I know can happen in Louisiana. This article goes on to read: ``Relatives of Ronald Greene,'' no relationship as far as I know, ``were initially told that he had died from injuries he sustained in a crash after he failed to stop for a traffic violation outside Monroe, Louisiana, in May 2019, according to a lawyer for the family.'' May 2019. You can do the math. That was some time ago. Some of us would say it was a long time ago.…”