26 ordspråk av Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton
 [The lawmakers said that progress has been made since then, but that more needs to be done.] What a new commission would have to do is more complex than the Kerner Commission, ... It's more complex than passing laws that this House and the Senate passed. |
| a lawsuit waiting to happen. |
| Disintegration of the family is the greatest problem facing the African-American community, ... And there are no simple, easy answers to this. Government has a role, but you have to be careful. How do you get into someone's family and try and save it; convince young men that they have responsibilities, young men who often feel they have no future and no hope. |
| I have not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should be waged. |
| If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court. |
| It will come not a moment too soon. |
| Men without jobs do not form families. |
| Nobody is going to buy into the next million [employees] without having some sense what happened to the first million, ... This is too big for me to put my faith in. |
| On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life |
| Our message is clear. We count. Children count. Everybody counts, so count everybody, |
| perfect voting record on affirmative action when it has come under assault. |
| shootouts at Easter egg hunts -- that's what it comes down to. |
| The amount and depth of the torture that's been alleged and corroborated leaves no doubt in my mind that what we saw was a staged interrogation, |
| The first thing people have got to do is to stop believing there's going to be any action anytime soon, ... It's obviously a prime piece of land. It's what's on the land that makes development difficult. |
| The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with |
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