Political Quotes

“Thank you so much to my colleague, Sheila Jackson Lee. I want to thank you and the Congressional Black Caucus for this Special Order Hour, a special tribute to the lives and legacy of Representative Louis Stokes, Amelia Boynton Robinson, and Julian Bond. Thank you, Ms. Jackson Lee, for your work here in Congress, your tireless efforts to raise awareness to issues which many Americans may have forgotten or not given thought to. Thank you for your mentorship to us younger members here and your tireless efforts to support not only the people of Houston, but the people of America. Thank you for allowing us this most important opportunity to pay tribute to these remarkable individuals. Mr. Speaker, today we gather in reverence and in solemn reflection to honor the lives and legacies of some exceptional people, some exceptional Americans, who we have lost in these recent months. These were civil rights activists, statesmen and women, trailblazers, members of a great generation of individuals who gave so much of themselves to the Civil Rights Movement and to the advancement of minorities in our country. They are former Congressman Louis Stokes, former chairman of the NAACP and Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, and civil rights icon Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson. A centenarian--Mrs. Robinson's 110 years of life, that in itself is a great honor--she was dedicated to education, fighting state-sanctioned discriminatory practices against African Americans, and voter disenfranchisement.…”