Political Quotes

“So we don't forget. But before there was a Black History Month, people started putting those things--Black, Negro, colored, whatever it may happen to be for that time period--in front of schools. They didn't put White in front of there. There was no Henderson White High School. It was the Negro High School. {time} 2030 I think the important thing in our trying to bridge all of that is we want to make sure that we don't go back. We don't want to take steps backwards when it comes particularly to education because all of those people, whether they went to the Henderson Negro High School, whether it be blood transfusions--whatever it may happen to be--they got there because of the investment that we made in this country in our public education system. The fact that someone in a position of importance would want to roll back those opportunities is absolutely scary. It is the same with health care, when you start talking about health care and so many people who don't have adequate health care. It is when we see the racial discrepancies and the life expectancy amongst African Americans. An African-American man, in particular, has the lowest life expectancy. And you want to remove people--20 million Americans--from having life insurance?”