Carol Moseley Braun

Braun in 1993

Carol Moseley Braun (born 16 August 1947) is a former U.S. Senator, an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992.

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 (April 7, 2022)