Raphael Warnock Quotes

Raphael Warnock

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 23, 1969

I believe in America.

Raphael Warnock

I'm the son of a woman who grew up in Waycross, Georgia, picking cotton.

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I believe in the American promise and I think is up to those of us who have been honored with the opportunity to represent the people of our state to make that promise true for every American.

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I'm a pastor. I lead Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. served.

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Our rural communities are the heart of our state and too often lack equitable access to housing, transit, and economic opportunity, so I'm deeply committed to working in Washington to reverse that trend in Georgia.

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No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth.

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I am committed to delivering for Georgia.

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It's no small thing for the citizens of your state to say we want you to represent us at the highest level of our government.

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I happen to believe that our democracy is at least as important as the economy.

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Ours is a great nation, built upon both free enterprise and the free exercise of basic democratic rights.

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You cannot have good capitalism without freedom. Each is strengthened by the other.

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Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the LGBTQ community has long been bipartisan. The Three-Fifths Compromise was the creation of a punitive national unity at the expense of black people's basic humanity.

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I have a tough-minded view of the world.

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We have to be able to protect the homeland, and we have to be able to restrain evil in the world.

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The Freedom Riders literally put their lives and limbs on the line in order to bring about an America that lives up to its own stated ideals. They are nothing short of American patriots, and honoring them more than 60 years after their historic acts is the least we can do.

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Senator Isakson represented the best of our state and our country. He was known for putting Georgia first, and for working across the aisle to get things done.

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I enjoyed spending time with Senator Isakson, especially every year when he would join Ebenezer Baptist Church for our annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Without a doubt, Senator Isakson cared deeply for Georgia, and he cared deeply for our country.

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Senator Isakson dedicated years of service to our beloved state, to our veterans, our families, and our children.

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I'm going to fight every day to make sure the kids growing up in communities like the one I grew up in or rural communities have access to the American Dream because nowhere else - nowhere else on the planet is my story even possible.

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