Political Quotes

“I understand the gentleman who previously spoke, and his concerns, and those people of conscience, but there comes a time where we have to say, ``You will not interfere with the rights, the legal rights, of those who you disagree with.'' Mr. Speaker, we tried it in the civil rights movement. When Bull Connor blocked the school door from young black children and we said that was wrong, Mr. Speaker, he disagreed. He believed that his racist point of view was right. But that did not give him the right to keep those children out of school. My colleagues, when we talk about people of conscience I can say from personal experience just across the river over in Falls Church we have a women's clinic, and what happened in that clinic was that people climbed upon the fire escapes, would not move, and, Mr. Speaker, when a policeman tried to get them to move, they kicked him in the eye and broke his eye socket, and when a woman who was 60 years old went to get her blood pressure tested, she was harassed, she was taken aside and pushed, and she actually went into a cardiac situation because of the treatment that she got at a health clinic because of the activities that were going on there through no fault of her own.”