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“In 1992, Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were elected to the Senate - the first time women held both seats from the same state. But Feinstein became California's first female senator by being sworn in early to complete the final days of a retired male senator's unfinished term.”
“If you've been to a pride parade, you know it's a celebration of acceptance and inclusion.”
“When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes this country what it is.”
“Trump thrives on spite, vengeance and public humiliation.”
“I'm gay, and I'm Black, and I'm a city slicker with no children.”
“There are still too many instances of police neither protecting nor serving LGBTQ and other marginalized communities. But the response shouldn't be to ban LGBTQ police from a parade.”
“When you're Black in America, you spend a lot of time counting firsts. The higher the first, the more we marvel (and shake our heads at how long it took to happen.) The higher the first, the more the person who achieved it comes to represent how we want the nation to see us.”
“Republicans' relationship with corporations is baffling. One minute, they are protecting corporations from what they envision as a marauding band of liberals. The next, they are the marauding band trying to silence corporations if they get too mouthy.”
“I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Black people are not afraid of White people. We're afraid of 'crazy' White people.”
“In a perfect world, nothing will happen to Obergefell. And as long as that remains the case, the Respect for Marriage Act would be little more than the legislative equivalent of insurance. It's not the most comprehensive policy. But it's better to have half a safeguard than nothing at all if disaster strikes.”
“Hawley may be a clown, but he's clever, too. He knows White men feel they're facing a crisis, and he plans to give them an answer.”
“When I first met the Rev. Al Sharpton in 1993 as a cub editorial writer at the New York Daily News, he had already earned a reputation as a rabble-rouser at the center of every racial controversy in the Big Apple.”
“I'm out, and I'm a columnist at The Post, an anchor at MSNBC and a contributor to 'PBS NewsHour.'”
“With the platform given to me by 'The Sunday Show,' I'm able for two hours to shine the spotlight in a place where people are either already looking or didn't know they needed to look there.”
“If Republicans aren't willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is to blow up the filibuster, then ignore McConnell's taunts and do it.”
“Scapegoating is as American as apple pie. And because there's almost always a racial or ethnic dynamic to it in our country, scapegoating is the evil cousin of white supremacy.”
“Activists who aren't 'straight, white and Christian' have pushed back against bigotry for many generations, and they have secured hard-won advances.”
“Long before the abolition of a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, red and reddish states were putting up obstacles to that right.”
“The indifference to lives not White must stop. The disregard for the fear of white terror must stop. And the lonely suffering in silence by those not White must stop.”
“Woke supremacy' ranks up there with that tired crutch of the right known as 'cancel culture.' The purpose of both phrases is to shield folks from criticism when they are called out for their actions or their deeply ignorant musings that peddle in racism, xenophobia or misogyny.”