Political Quotes

“Thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity to be here with my colleagues. Mr. Speaker, I am so humbled and honored to be with the gentlewoman from Ohio, Joyce Beatty, who is an example to us freshmen and who fights, along with the gentleman of New York, Hakeem Jeffries, not just for the people of their district and not just for African Americans, but for all Americans, because that is what we are all here in this Congress to do. By pointing out the inequalities, it is not to cast aspersions on all of America, but to make us to be better people than what we are today. When Dr. King so eloquently delivered his famous ``I Have a Dream'' speech 50 years ago, he did so with every hope and expectation that that Nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of that creed. He hoped that the tenet all men are created equal would, in fact, one day be a truth held self-evident. We cannot allow simply moving past the glaring bigotries of Jim Crow, however, to be a benchmark for success. Doing so would ignore the more subtle bigotries that continue today. These subtle bigotries are, in fact, as deeply rooted and extreme in their effect as those glaring bigotries Dr. King and so many others fought vigorously and valiantly to overcome. We are still achieving the dream. Today it is not just social injustice, but also extreme inequality that constrains economic mobility for the African American community and, therefore, for all of America.…”