Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

It will come not a moment too soon. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

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. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

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. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

A lawsuit waiting to happen. - 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. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

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