Eleanor Holmes Norton
Politician
1937-06-13
Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the congressional delegate for the District of Columbia since 1991. She previously chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Quotes by Eleanor Holmes Norton
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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.
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I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.
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