Raphael Warnock Quotes

Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce, Edward Brooke, Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama, Roland W. Burris, Tim Scott, William “Mo” Cowan, Cory A. Booker, Kamala D. Harris, Raphael Warnock: that is the full and complete list of African Americans to serve in the United States Senate in the history of this country.

While I miss them (his two children), I remind myself that I am fighting for them and for all children. I am fighting so that they will forever have a home, a sustainable planet where they can breathe freely, and a vibrant and prosperous democracy where they can live freely.

The other day, because this is America, the eighty-two-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator.

...a nation still reckoning with the complexity of its own self-understanding, conceived in liberty, expanded through genocide, built by slaves.

to be effective, you have to be willing to put your body in the game—show up, give what you have (your time, your money, your skills), and do what you’re asking of others.

A vote is sacred. It avows the worth of every human being. It is in essence a prayer for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and our children.

stay the course, no matter how bleak the outlook.