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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'
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- Nov 07, 2020