![]() And in their name and memory, I continue that struggle for voting rights, for access to health care, which I believe is a human right, and for the struggles of ordinary, hardworking Georgia families.Īnd Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel were smiling because when they marched, they marched alongside one another, fighting for voting rights. You've had some fun in in your campaign ads. There's one that shows you running with a football. And acknowledging that if that was the race with your opponent, you would understand if voters went the other way. My brothers, as I discuss in the book, they were the athletes of the family. ![]() WARNOCK: Trumpet and baritone horn (laughter). KELLY: You know, this is the fourth time I have interviewed you. The first was right after George Floyd was killed. And you told me then - you talked about the responsibility to speak up in that moment, to work for change. And I was thinking about since that day, summer of 2020, we have had, of course, more police shootings and the big lie and the January 6 insurrection. And I wonder, does it sometimes feel to you like the country is moving in the wrong direction, that we are more divided than ever? And right now, we're in the middle of these hugely polarized national debates over abortion and gun violence and school shootings. And over the course of time, our democracy expands. It gets a little closer towards those ideals. There are moments when it contracts, but even contractions open the possibility for new birth and new hope and so on. But you don't see this as an unusually dangerous moment for our democracy? You and I are speaking as the, you know, January 6, the public hearings for the investigation into all of that are underway on Capitol Hill. Our democracy is imperiled, and it's the reason why I was pushing so hard over the course of the last year or so, the moment I got here to pass voting rights in our country. After I was elected, we saw the emergence of voter suppression laws across dozens of states. And those laws and the passing of those laws was informed by the big lie, January 6, the most violent attack on our Capitol.īut here's what's also true - January 5 is also true. On January 5, the country - Georgia sent a Black man and a Jewish man, both mentored by John Lewis in different ways to the Senate. And so that's the question before us right now. That's what's at stake in this election and at this moment. January 5 and January 6 each tell us something important about America. And the question is, which way are we going to go? And it's our responsibility as citizens, I think, to push us closer towards our ideals. KELLY: A lot of people listening in Georgia and across the country look at these issues we're talking about, whether it's voting rights or abortion or gun safety and say, hey, Democrats, you control Congress. WARNOCK: To which I say that because Georgia stood up, we passed the single largest tax cut for middle and working-class families in American history.
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