Political Quotes

“Sometimes it is extremely difficult, Madam Speaker, to really convey in this form both the pain and the emotion of one's journey in life. I worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the conference that Dr. Martin Luther King and Ralph David Abernathy organized and gathered foot soldiers for from around America. They were, in fact, the beloved community, and included the likes of John Robert Lewis and many others that sit in this House today. I walked on plantations and tried to register sharecroppers. And so, I come today to recount for us the words of Dr. King: ``We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'' We need to enact democracy reform now more than ever because State lawmakers introduced over 440 suppression bills in 49 States. We cannot allow the other body to stand on some sort of pro forma dignity that they cannot overturn the filibuster, when people died for the vote. We honor Dr. King on Monday. I want that vote to be in his honor that we have voting rights. ____________________”