Danny K. Davis

I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero. ”

I think life is the sum total of your experiences. ”

What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs. ”

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope. ”

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem. ”

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality. ”

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change. ”

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice. ”

Culture is central to what makes us human. ”

I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States. ”