Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New Jersey, particularly for pointing out about the hands that built this building. That is something that is not widely known, that the hands that built this building were not hands of free men but hands of slaves that built this building that we stand under today, that people come and admire from all around the world, and we admire this building as a symbol of freedom. But the hands that built it were not free hands. And of course what followed emancipation in this country--Jim Crow, voter suppression, and all of those things--once we finally got past the late sixties and seventies, to see some of that coming back again is very, very disturbing, and I want to thank him for his timely comments on that. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Beatty). I thank her spending so much time here on the House floor working the Special Order hour, and particularly when it comes to the thing that we are so worried about right now, which is the voter suppression commission.”