Raphael Warnock

If you want to honor Dr. King, stand up against voter suppression right now.

If you think that this is something happening down in Georgia, you are misapprehending the moment that we`re living in. If you think that this is something happening to black voters, you still don`t quite clearly understand. This is a…

If there`s one thing that`s clear, it`s that the Georgia election was certainly free of any consequential fraud. We counted the votes not once, not twice, but three times. So, what`s the purpose of all of this? They don`t like the outcome…

They don`t like the outcome, and so this is democracy in reverse.

Our democracy is in a 911 emergency. And I`m not about to be stopped or stymied by debates about Senate rules.

It is that big lie that is the fuel for these terrible voter suppression laws that we see coming out of the state of Georgia. And we have had to push hard against the big lie and make sure that we secure the democracy for all of our…

So, what`s the purpose of all of this? They don`t like the outcome. And so this is democracy in reverse, where politicians have decided that, instead of the voters picking their representatives, the representatives have a right to…

The notion that you`re going to protect the rights of the minority at the -- in the Senate, at the expense of the rights of the minorities across the United States is absurd.

Our democracy is in a 911 emergency. And I’m not about to be stopped or stymied by debates about Senate rules. It’s a contradiction for us to say we must protect minority rights in the Senate, while right now here in Georgia, they’re…

So, you are literally going to make public policy based on a lie, based on the feeling that some people have that things didn’t turn out the way they should have turned out? Is that how we make public policy? We counted the votes not once…

Food insecurity, lack of access to health care, particularly in States that have yet to expand Medicaid, larger issues around health, including obesity, all part of a network of care that we address by expanding Medicaid.

The ball is in the court of the legislature.

What is our legislature doing? They`re busy in the -- under the gold dome here in Georgia trying to prevent people from being able to vote the same day they register.

For every young person who`s ever wondered whether or not your vote counts, you should have no doubt in your mind now. If your vote didn`t matter they wouldn`t be working so hard to try to stop it. So don`t let anybody take your voice or…

Those of us who have the honor of representing the people in both houses of Congress, the only reason where there and able to argue about anything, is because somebody voted for us to be there. And so this, this whole cell systemic effort…

For 135 years, our church has been bearing witness to God’s love and justice in the world.

In a moment like this, we have just got to bind together. Dr. King, the greatest son of Georgia, said that we’re tied in a single garment of destiny, and that what affects one directly affects all indirectly. And so we have got to walk…

And we saw, with this terrible tragedy, the ways in which violence gets visited upon communities of color, upon women. And I know folks are sorting through the weeds of the killer’s motives, but we know hate when we see it.

I stand before you saying that this issue, access to voting, and pre-empting politician`s efforts to restrict voting is so fundamental to our democracy that it is too important to be held hostage by a senate rule, especially one…

I’m privileged to preach from the pulpit from which Dr. King preached, and from which he spoke not only to his parishioners, but to a nation and helped us to understand that the call and the quest for democracy, for civil rights is a…

This wholesale systemic effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans, it’s a threat to the democracy itself.

My view is that we have to pass voting rights whether we get rid of the filibuster or not, whatever reforms come.

There is no question that we are going to have a serious conversation about the filibuster. That’s going to happen.

There’s a Ghanaian proverb that says, when you pray, move your feet. And so we have got to move our feet. We have got to get involved.

Dr. King, the greatest son of Georgia, said that we’re tied in a single garment of destiny, and that what affects one directly affects all indirectly. And so we have got to walk with our Asian sisters and brothers through this moment.