Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real.
Interpretation
Voter suppression is a genuine and significant issue that affects people's ability to vote.
In this quote, Stacey Abrams highlights the undeniable existence of voter suppression, emphasizing that it is a serious obstacle that undermines democratic participation. By stating the need for clarity, she calls attention to the urgency of acknowledging and addressing this issue to ensure fair voting rights for all citizens.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, one might quote Stacey Abrams to emphasize the importance of protecting voter access.
I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.
My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I'm relentless, you know I'm persistent, and you know I'm smart.
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
I like to solve problems. I know it is a skill set, but it's also an obligation. I grew up with parents who believe that you don't simply complain: you try to find solutions and fix what's in front of you.
Here in Georgia, we continue to grapple with our own vestiges of hate. The image carved into Stone Mountain, like Confederate monuments across this state, stand as constant reminders of racism, intolerance, and division.
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
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