Become Quote by Mike Espy

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have…

— Andrew Young

I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to…

— Mike Espy

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

— Carl Lewis

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that…

— Eric Holder

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a…

— George McGovern

I served on a lot of the local boards in my local community, and then I ran for the state legislature in '98 and…

— Jon Tester

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd

The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for Congress from…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short…

— Vernon Jones

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— Mike Espy

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown…

— Alice Walker

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on…

— Tom Hayden