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Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of
wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to
multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.
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The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high
ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories
to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed
the document, but they were outnumbered. It is representative of the contradiction and conflict between America’s original sin and its original promise that still courses through our lives and politics today.
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I was in my late twenties and about to start my fourth year at the SPDC when I met Walter McMillian. His case was one of the flood of cases I’d found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. The state had nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest-growing condemned population in the country, but it also had no public defender system, which meant that large numbers of death row prisoners had no legal representation of any kind.
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Voting is an act of faith. It is profound. In a democracy, it is the ultimate power.
Through the vote, the poor can access financial means, the infirm can find health care
supports, and the burdened and heavy-laden can receive a measure of relief from a
social safety net that serves all.
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It is time to stop settling and tolerating mediocrity from our leaders. We need leaders to be truly accountable.
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