[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H1023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       A SIMPLE, YET PROFOUND ACT

  (Mr. BUDD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BUDD. Madam Speaker, 60 years ago this month, four African 
American students from North Carolina A&T performed a simple, yet 
profound act. They sat at Woolworth's lunch counter in front of a 
detestable ``Whites Only'' sign. They were called rabble-rousers, 
troublemakers, and worse. They did not yield.
  In the days that followed, more students joined them, including my 
friend, Clarence Henderson. By continuing to sit, they were actually 
standing up for their God-given constitutional rights as Americans.
  They may not have known it at the time, but their act of courage lit 
a fire of freedom that spread across our country, all the way to the 
steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke to 
us about his dream of a more just tomorrow.
  Madam Speaker, this Black History Month, we remember the brave 
sacrifices that were made by so many so that each and every American 
would never again be judged, as Dr. King said, by the color of our skin 
but, instead, ``by the content of their character.''

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