The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley.… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
