Al Green actually said...

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

"I think we have a responsibility to legislate with that in mind when we consider bills that may further affect the rate of inflation one way or the other."

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

"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."