Harris in Selma: 'We will not let setbacks stop us'
By Monique Beals - 03/06/22 07:13 PM EST
Vice President Kamala Harris promised to push ahead with the Biden administration's voting rights agenda despite recent setbacks during her remarks in Selma, Ala. on Sunday commemorating the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”
"In a moment of great uncertainty, those marchers pressed forward and they crossed," Harris said on Sunday of the civil rights activists who in 1965 crossed Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and were beaten and tear gassed.
"We must do the same. We must lock our arms and march forward," she added. "We will not let setbacks stop us."
Harris said that honoring the legacy of those who marched would require a push for "Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation" and "to lift up state legislatures that have passed pro-voter laws and that we keep fighting to prevent the passage of the anti-voter laws."
"It demands we keep going to court to defend this sacred freedom, and it demands we register voters, volunteer as election workers and yes, of course, drive souls to the polls," the vice president added.
Harris, who is the first African American, Indian American and female vice president, linked arms with fellow marchers and led a large crowd across the historic bridge.
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