We have to have a transformation of how we view the role of law enforcement, how we view the construct of public safety, and how we invest not only in the work that we need them to do to protect us but the work that we need to do to protect and build our communities, and that’s the conversation we’re having: We’ll use different language to describe it, but fundamentally we must have reformation and transformation.

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My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.

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While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.

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From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

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When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.

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The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.

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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.

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I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.

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'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

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At any given moment, we each face a barrage of obligations, often disparate and distinct from what we thought would happen when we woke up. From the tragic to the common to the extraordinary, life refuses to be divvied up into careful slices of time. No technology can manage to overcome the realities of reality.

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Georgians understand obligation, love of family, and payment plans.

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Across the South, we have local leaders dedicated to improving the lives of those around us, and our goal is to call upon that common bond and support this transformative work through the Southern Economic Advancement Project, sEAP exists to connect, amplify and ultimately help produce exciting innovations and opportunities for the South.

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The moral equivalent of saying that voter turnout defuses or disproves voter suppression is like saying that more people getting in the water means there are no longer any sharks.

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We have to remember, voter suppression isn't about stopping every voter, it's about blocking and impeding those voters who are considered inconvenient.

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We have to reach every single voter, in every way we can. We had record turnout and we saw a composition of voters the state had never seen before, my mission in'22 is to go back to those voters and tell them how working together, we can make certain they thrive, and that will lead us to victory in November.

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George Soros and the Soros family have demonstrated nothing but deep investment and commitment to social justice.

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I did the work and now I want the job.

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When Stacey Rice apply for a job, and Stacey Rice very publicly don't get it, it can be a little hard, through no fault of Stacey Abrams own, it was stolen.

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Concession needs to say something is right and true and proper. ... You can’t trick me into saying it was right.

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To watch an elected official – who claims to represent the people inthis state, baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people’s democratic right to vote – has been truly appalling, so let's be clear, this is not a speech of concession.

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I will always acknowledge the legal outcome of an election. I have never failed to do that.

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