Political Quotes

“And still I rise. And still I rise as a proud, unbought, unbossed, unafraid, liberated Democrat. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, in the name of liberty and justice for all. Liberty and justice for all, not the name of liberty and justice for people of color, for people who happen to be of a different hue, but in the name of liberty and justice for all and, more specifically, in the name of liberty and justice for Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis. Mr. Speaker, I rise in the name of liberty and justice for them because our country should be in mourning today. A life was needlessly lost, and no one of great notoriety, or a person who happens to have been a Congressperson, or a person holding some prominent position in society. They were not persons who were out in Hollywood making motion pictures; just an ordinary citizen who lost their life, and we ought to be in mourning. We ought to be in mourning because the young man was shot for ringing a doorbell. His sin was he was ringing a doorbell. He was a person of color, yes. Apparently, according to at least one statement by an official, there is something to do here with race. But he was ringing a doorbell, and he was shot twice--once in the head. The young woman that I speak of was White. She went into the wrong driveway, and she was shot. Is this where we are in this country? People are going to be killed for ringing the wrong doorbell? Going to be murdered for pulling up in a driveway? Innocently, I might add.…”