"Immediately I knew that was problematic [being paired on a television show with John Lewis]. Because the show starts with our bios, and it starts with, ‘John Lewis, hero of the civil rights movement stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. … He literally bled the southern soil red. And then it goes to me. ‘Cory Booker, riding his Big Wheel in affluent suburbia, falls off and skins his knee: He bled the New Jersey soil red.’ And so you are very aware if you were born after the civil rights movement, if you were born in my generation, that you stand on the shoulders of giants."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Democratic Party (United States) politiciansLawyers from the United StatesMayors from the United StatesBaptists from the United States21st-century African-American people
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cory_Booker
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Cory Booker
Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013. The first African-American U.S. Senator from New Jersey, he was previously the 36th Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. Before that Booker served on the Newark City Council for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.
36 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Cory Booker →
Related Quotes
"The reality is we have to make sure that we have a military that’s prepared, but right now, we have more military spe…"
"We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring."
"We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward."
"I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of …"
"Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender."
"We make a grave mistake when we assume this spirit of connectedness is automatic or inevitable. It is not a birthrigh…"
"Most people think that these high-density poor neighborhoods, predominately people of color, just came about through …"
"What would you do if you could not fail. Answer that question and do that."
"I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the …"
"Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. …"