African american Quote by Patrick Leahy

When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that…

— Al Sharpton

Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box.…

— Coretta Scott King

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

While the President [Barack Obama] did a good thing when he said he personally supported equal marriage, he then quickly backed away and said…

— Jill Stein

I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this…

— Al Sharpton

I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would…

— Al Sharpton

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That`s why Jeff Sessions couldn`t get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated…

— Coretta Scott King

The Clintons opposed gay marriage. They did don't ask, don't tell. They did the Defense of Marriage Act.

— Bill O'Reilly

The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify…

— Charles M. Blow

Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that…

— David Brooks