Raphael Warnock

Voting rights are preservative of all other rights.

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

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.

Voting rights is how we address the deepening divides in our country, by ensuring every eligible voter's voice is heard.

Like my parishioner Congressman John Lewis, I believe that voting is a sacred undertaking, and we must keep marching until we secure the sacred right to vote for every eligible American.

Racial inequity in how the immense benefits of the original G.I. Bill were disbursed are well-documented, and we've all seen how these inequities have trickled down over time, leaving Black World War II veterans and their families without the benefits they earned through service and sacrifice.

There's a road that runs through our humanity and it traverses political and partisan lines, and my job as a U.S. senator is to do everything I can to point to that road that connects our collective humanity and to push forward legislation that's good for everybody.

I am asking that every American everywhere, in every state, in every zip code have the same opportunities and the same right to live.

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.

Restricting access to the ballot is not good for Georgia and it's certainly not good for Georgia business.

We have to repair our country's infrastructure, but we also have to protect and repair the infrastructure of our democracy. It's not either or, it's both and.

Americans are literally dying for lack of health care coverage.

No one should be denied healthcare in America because of where they live.

I was John Lewis's pastor, but he was my mentor.

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.

To fight for voting rights is to fight for human rights.

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

Politicians should not be trying to pick their voters. The voters get to pick who represents them.

When we say the Black church, we have never meant anything racially exclusive by that. The Black church is the antislavery church. It is an independent Christian witness that literally emerged fighting for freedom and insisting that the gospel is about equality, justice and inclusive humanity.