Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun, is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first and to date only female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first and to date only female Senator from Illinois. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 August 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Carol Moseley Braun quotes about
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
I want to rebuild America.
If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.