“I had - and have - huge respect for John Crow.” — Paul Martin Quote

“I had - and have - huge respect for John Crow.”

“Reasonable people can have differences.”

“Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.”

“We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.”

“During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws had been allowed to stand.”

“As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised my own family here.”