When people doubt your right to be somewhere, the responsibility falls on you to prove over and over again that you deserve to be there.

We're too often told that our mistakes are ours alone, but victory is a shared benefit.

The manufacturing-intensive advanced energy industry promotes work for engineers, machinists, coders and installers, but also administrators, accountants, truck drivers, sales force, and a range of other occupations.

I like solving problems that seem intractable. That's how I thrive.

We need to recognize that, whether you're looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of voters, the suppression of votes, cuts across every community, and therefore, it cuts across partisanship.

My parents are ministers.

Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real.

We deserve an economy that works in every county, for every Georgian, and helps families thrive -- not just survive.

I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow South.

I come from a family that hunted. I know how to hunt, but I don't do it.

My primary goal is to eradicate poverty; I believe it is immoral and a stain on our society. And so when I despair or get angry, I take the time to think about how I can best achieve that goal -- and then I get to work.

For parents who work, afterschool programs can be a crucial support system, but too many communities have limited options.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.

Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.

Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.

When I was in high school at the age of 17 -- I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia, as valedictorian of my high school -- I was very proud of myself.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.