Cory Booker Awkwardly Quotes Martin Luther King Speech in Kavanaugh Attack

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BOOKER: "I want to conclude by reading some words from another painful period. , Where people didn't know what this body would do. There was injustice in this land, and people didn't know what this body would do. Hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands came forward to March and to protest and to sit in, and they didn't know what this body would do, but they stood anyway and they fought anyway. Sometimes they were beaten. In fact in one case on a bridge in Alabama they were beaten and bloodied. One of my colleagues in the other chamber, John Lewis, had his head split open, but they eventually got over that bridge and got to Montgomery, and a man named king gave this speech to those people who were tempted to surrender to cynicism in that time. He gave this speech to those people who wanted to give up. He gave that speech to those people who were hurting. This is what he said, and I quote, he goes I know you're asking today how long will it take. Somebody's asking how long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne. Somebody's asking when will wounded justice line prostrate on the streets, be lifted from the dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men. Somebody is asking when will the radiant star of hope be plunged against the nocturnal bosom of this lonely night plucked from the weary souls with chains of fierce and the manacles of how long will justice be crucified and truth bear it? I come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because truth crushed to the Earth will rise again. How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long. Because you shall reap what you sow. How long? Not long. How long? Not long. Because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. And so I say to every American that is hurting tonight, every American that's angry tonight, tomorrow we face a defeat, but we shall not be defeated. Tomorrow it may seem like a loss, but all hope is not lost."