Bernie Sanders Quotes
What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.
Sanders, Bernie. "Remarks on Xenophobia." C-SPAN, 2015.
The following year, there were calls for boycotts of the racist 1936 German views that would prevail at the Olympics to be held in Berlin. So Brundage changed his tune and tried to keep politics out of the Olympics. But race was already injected by German laws and policies and the U. S. practices in the South. Brundage, anti-Semitic himself, was worried that if boycotts of the Berlin Olympics were successful, their might be international or even national boycotts of segregated sporting events in the American south. So he argued to keep politics and boycotts out of the Olympics (See {625799}.) The U. S. Delegate to the International Olympic Committee.
Bernard Sanders is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007 and as U.S. Representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, although he has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career. Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns. Before his election to Congress, he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.