Quote of the Day
“I am a black man. I am the great-grandson of slaves, the grandson of a sharecropper, the son of a hardworking businessman. I am at least a fourth-generation American: This is my heritage and my country and I am so very proud of it.
I believe in the goodness of this nation even when I have been so often exposed to the worst part of it.
I believe completely in the legal system as it was designed to function by the Founding Fathers, although I know from my experience that too often it doesn’t work that way.
Many of my battles in American courtrooms have been a single attempt to extend the benefits of that system to those people who for so long have been excluded.”
Johnnie Cochran (1937-2005)
