Skip to content

Congressman David Dreier: Will the gentlewoman yield?
Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

cite news

More quotes by Eleanor Holmes Norton

As a young constitutional lawyer, I was put to the first amendment test when I was called on to defend racists and neo-Nazis. I really had no choice. Surely now we know that none of us do. Free speech is unequivocal, unpolitical, and indivisible.

All Eleanor Holmes Norton quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Eleanor Holmes Norton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.