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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. He previously served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, a position that has deep historical significance in the civil rights movement. Warnock's legislative focus includes issues such as voting rights, healthcare, and economic justice.
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…
This wholesale systemic effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans, it’s a threat to the democracy itself.
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…
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…
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…
And it’s a great thing that the vice president of the United States right now is the first Asian American vice president, first African American vice president, first woman.
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.
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.
For 135 years, our church has been bearing witness to God’s love and justice in the world.
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.
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.
And then they want to make it a crime to bring grandma some water while she`s waiting in a line that they`re making longer. Make no mistake, this is democracy in reverse.
We have seen more recently financial regulators take more seriously the impact of climate on our larger financial system, but as you point out, we have got to do much more.
If we find ourselves in a situation where politicians don`t even have to have the majority to do whatever it is they want to do, then the future of all of our children is imperiled.
The American Rescue Plan included funds to expand Medicaid. We were pushing hard for this.
I think that a vote is a kind of prayer for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and for our children.
I think it is critical that we make more investment, both public investments with Government funds but also help leverage private investment, into investing in those communities.
The American people are being crowded out and squeezed out of their own democracy, and I`m going to do everything in my power as a United States senator to give the people their voice back.
They are trying to make it a crime to give people water and a snack as they wait in lines that are obviously being made longer by their draconian actions.
the four most powerful words uttered in democracy are the people have spoken. Therefore, we must ensure that all of the people can speak.
I urge my colleagues to pass these two bills, strengthen and lengthen the cords of our democracy, secure our credibility as the premier voice for freedom-loving people and democratic movements all over the world, and win the future for all…
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