Raphael G. Warnock > Quotes

“While I miss them (his two children), I remind myself that I am fighting for them and for all children. I am fighting so that they will forever have a home, a sustainable planet where they can breathe freely, and a vibrant and prosperous democracy where they can live freely.”
― Raphael Warnock

“The crisis of environmental disaster has too often been framed as a white, upper middle class issue. The movement simply has not done a good job at diversifying its ranks. People who care most about the environment also need to be saying a whole lot more about civil rights and justice. At the same time, many of my own friends who speak in such a powerful way about civil rights need to be saying a whole lot more about the environment. There is no greater human right than the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water.”
― Raphael G. Warnock, The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America

“Evil always goes too far and therefore contains within itself the seed of its own destruction.”
― Raphael G. Warnock, The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America

“to be effective, you have to be willing to put your body in the game—show up, give what you have (your time, your money, your skills), and do what you’re asking of others.”
― Raphael G. Warnock, A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story

“...a nation still reckoning with the complexity of its own self-understanding, conceived in liberty, expanded through genocide, built by slaves.”
― Raphael Warnock

“The other day, because this is America, the eighty-two-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator.”
― Raphael Warnock

“stay the course, no matter how bleak the outlook.”
― Raphael G. Warnock, A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story

“Sadly, it is so well rehearsed that we all have the liturgy of the bloody sacrificial ritual down pat: witness with horror, mourn the loss, express outrage, tell the stories of the victims, offer thoughts and prayers, argue about why this is happening, move on with our lives. Wash, rinse, repeat. But our hands are still bloody.”
― Raphael G. Warnock, The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America

“A vote is sacred. It avows the worth of every human being. It is in essence a prayer for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and our children.”
― Raphael G. Warnock, A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story