Sen. Raphael Warnock

All of us have to fight.

And the good news is that the tools, I do believe, the tools in our democratic experiment

If we have citizens of courage who are willing to will them, showing up to vote, protest, raising your voice, engaged in the system, that the way to fight this assault is to expand the margins of the democracy, even as they're trying to contract them.

And this midterm election is an important moment in that struggle.

But we can't wait until November.

We've got to be engaged in the fight right now.

Well, you know, right after the civil rights bill was passed into law, Dr. King and other members of his staff said,

went to see President Johnson.

Andy Young told me this story.

And he said that they walked in the office, and the president, of course, was ebullient and joyful that they had passed the civil rights bill into law.

And Dr. King said, great, we passed that bill into law.

Wonderful.

I need a voting rights law.

Like he didn't skip a beat.

I need voting rights.

My people cannot vote.

And if you can't vote, you're not a citizen.

15th Amendment had passed, remember, 100 years earlier.

So folks would say, well, who's stopping you from voting?

They just, you're ignoring our history.