Monday, January 19, 2026

‘You cannot bury good’

 If you were wondering what the holiday was like in Atlanta, you can get a suggestion of it from a remark Raphael Warnock made at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Warnock is senior pastor of the church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. Warnock is also a U.S. senator. He said:

I’m inspired this morning by our neighbors, by ordinary citizens who are standing up in this moment in Minneapolis and all across the country. Renee Good could’ve stayed in her house. But in the best of the civil rights struggle, she literally put her body on the line, and she paid a high price for it. Now they’re trying to malign her name, but you cannot bury good. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.

 

• Source: Jason Armesto, “At MLK celebration, Warnock channels King’s legacy to decry ICE raids”; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 19, 2026.

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