Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman. Madam Speaker, for the past 3 years, it has been my good fortune to sit next to Mr. Lewis on the dais of the Committee on Ways and Means. His warmth, his humility, his lack of bitterness after all that he endured was truly extraordinary. His decades of service touched so many lives. With his multi-volume graphic novel, ``March,'' he found a way to reach a younger audience with his enduring message of struggle, hope, and love. Reading it to my own grandchildren, they were hooked early when John talked about the fact that, as a young boy, he preached to his chickens--and that is how he became the great orator that we know him as being. He noted that: They would never quite say amen. The dedication in March reads, ``To the past and future children of the movement.'' Not just this work, but his entire life's work was dedicated to the past and future children of the movement. For all that you have done, for all our children, John, we say ``amen.'' John knew that America could not call itself a democracy until everyone could cast a ballot, and that the struggle for voting rights was a struggle for democracy itself.…”