Marc Morial Quotes
We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.
Marc Morial, Mayor of New Orleans (Democrat), National Conference of Black Mayors, April 18, 1998
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Computer utilization and ownership gap between segments of America
At the time he wrote this, the Chinese government heavily censored the Internet. While there was an enormous unprecedented access to information, much was unavailable to most Chinese.
Marc Haydel Morial /ˌmɔːriˈæl/ is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League. Morial served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002 as the city's youngest Mayor, President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2001, and as a Louisiana State Senator from 1992 to 1994.