Carol Moseley Braun
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Carol Moseley Braun (born 16 August 1947) is an American politician and lawyer, and was the first black woman elected to the United States Senate.
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- The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
- Speech, September 2004 [1]