Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. I want to thank Representative John Lewis, the gentleman from Georgia, for authoring this legislation and for his long, long work, many years in the civil rights movement, along with the chairman, for bringing this legislation to the House floor and his work in the civil rights movement. This resolution recognizes and honors the 50th anniversary of Ruby Bridges. Now, unlike the chairman, I think 50 years was a long time ago, but maybe it wasn't. But it was 50 years any way you look at it since Ruby Bridges played a role in desegregating a previously all- white public elementary school in the South. {time} 1540 I was in elementary school at the same time she was, but not the same school having been in Texas and going to school there. In 1954, this all started when the United States Supreme Court made possible desegregation of American schools in Brown v. Board of Education. Six years later, Ruby Bridges, an African American child, a first grader, would help further the goal of the Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Sometimes we have to leave it up to the kids to get things done. In this case, it was a first grader, a 6-year-old in elementary school who just wanted to go to school, and she was determined to get an education. In 1960, she had started to attend William Frantz Elementary School. It was an all-white school in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the New Orleans school system.…”