Political Quotes

“And still I rise, proud to be an American and, today, I would also say, proud to be a member of the Nation's oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP. I am especially proud to be a member of the NAACP today because, yesterday, the NAACP became the first of the civil rights and human rights organizations to take a stand against bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, hatred, and racism by passing a resolution at its national convention calling for the impeachment of the President. And still I rise, proud, Mr. Speaker, to be associated with this organization. This is not its first time taking a stand on behalf of the American people. It was the NAACP that filed Shelley v. Kraemer and Barrows v. Jackson, outlawing restrictive covenants that prevented people of color from living in certain neighborhoods. It was the NAACP that filed and won Brown v. Board of Education, which, literally, took on and eviscerated segregation--lawful segregation, I might add--in this country. It was the NAACP that guided the Supreme Court of the United States of America for almost a quarter of a century under the leadership of Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall. He was the lawyer who took Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court. He was the lawyer who was the chief legal counsel for the NAACP. He sat on the Supreme Court. He guided the Supreme Court. The NAACP, again, makes history, and I am proud to be associated with this great organization. Mr.…”