Carol Moseley Braun

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.

Quotes

• 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.
  • 40th Cconvention of the Islamic Society of North America Speech, (September 6 2004)

• Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning appealing to the worst instincts of the American people
  • Moseley Braun: Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning ‘appealing to the worst instincts of the American people’ (March 25, 2022)

• There’s a word, and the word is called misogynoir. And that word describes the double whammy that women of color have to face: You’re vulnerable on the issue of gender, and you’re vulnerable on the issue of race.
  • The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court (Apr 7, 2022)