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Americans know how to defeat a tyrant
Americans know how to defeat a tyrant (washingtonpost.com) Americans know how to defeat a tyrant By Emanuel Cleaver II 2025040110300000 In our justifiable nervousness over what seems to be the first phase of our slide into a government where power rests in the greedy hands of a few exorbitantly wealthy oligarchs, we may be overlooking those who are best equipped to resist and reverse the MAGA-manufactured mess.
Racists, antisemites and other bigots simply hate the other. Missouri, stand together
OPINION AND COMMENTARY As I prepare to celebrate the 94th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., I have recently been reflecting on a story I swiped from the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth - one of many profound leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who influenced my life. As the story goes, one day a hare was strolling through the forest, minding his own business, when the sound of a gunshot sent him into flight.
Emanuel Cleaver: MLK demanded peace, not political violence | The Kansas City Star
The Missouri congressman is top-of-the-line livid that someone allegedly threatened Donald Trump’s life. David Zalubowski Associated Press file photo Today, most Americans celebrated the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., founding president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the distinguished nonviolent direct action civil rights organization.
Emaneul Cleaver: Don’t counterprotest Jan. 6 Washington rally | The Kansas City Star
Don’t give the forces against democracy the same voice as those who support it. John Minchillo Associated Press file photo My lifelong embrace of civil rights — and the utilization of protest as a means to justify those ends — began when at the age of 15, I organized and led a march of roughly 50 like-minded kids around my age through the downtown streets of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Security Screening During COVID-19 Act (H.R. 1877)
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Emanuel Cleaver: Missouri Republicans obey vote on Medicaid | The Kansas City Star
Missouri voters were clear they want expanded Medicaid in the state, and lawmakers are legally obligated to make it happen. Photo illustration The Star Last August, a majority of Missourians who traveled to the polls voted for Amendment 2, sending a clear message to our state legislators: We want to expand Medicaid. However, less than eight months later, state House GOP lawmakers announced their intention to overrule the will of Missourians by voting against funding for the expansion.
How you can help KC’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum honor its great American legacy
The Negro Leagues’ story is a uniquely American one. Star file photo On a mild Chicago afternoon on Oct. 20, 1924, the Kansas City Monarchs baseball team took the field against the Hilldale Daisies in the final game of the first Negro World Series. Tied at four games apiece, both sides pitched shutouts for seven innings, until Kansas City exploded for five runs in the eighth.
Rep. Cleaver: Postal Service a lifeline for rural Americans. Don’t let politics kill it
United States Postal Service workers deliver through rain, sleet, snow, pit bulls and coronavirus. Paul Sancya The Associated Press As best my three sisters can determine, our maternal grandmother had the same Waxahachie, Texas, post office mailbox for her entire life. She died in 1995 at the age of 95. As long as I am able to maintain my mental dexterity, my sisters and I will be able to testify that P.O. Box 563 belonged to Zora Gardner Alexander.
House Democrat: Patience, not impeachment, is best way to hold Donald Trump accountable
Emanuel Cleaver II, Opinion contributors Published 3:15 a.m. ET June 14, 2019 Patience is not the same as passivity or acceptance. Let's investigate Trump and tell America what we find, without making our divisions even worse.
Shutdown reality: Facts versus myths in the debate over immigration
When I arrived in our nation’s capital 14 years ago, I learned that one quickly becomes well-versed in the Washingtonian dialect of “spin” — a practice that can be defined as presenting facts in the most persuasive light possible. A more nefarious description is propaganda. When debating policy, individuals use the facts necessary to present their argument in the most attractive way. But central to any debate that can bring a meaningful outcome is the presentation of evidence-based facts.
Opinion: Cleaver says focus Opportunity Zones on struggling areas
The United States has seen communities across the nation struggle to recover from the most harrowing financial calamity since the Great Depression. From coast to coast and throughout the heartland - whether urban, rural or suburban - American communities have labored to reclaim the prosperity that was once thriving before the economic crash in 2008. While the economy has recovered to a significant degree, we've seen income inequality reach levels never before seen in modern American history.
Immigration: Once a Beacon of Hope, Now a Diminishing Light
As a member of the United States House of Representatives, I have always attempted to refrain from the use of biblical scriptures. However, with the attorney general’s questionable use of scripture to rescind asylum protection for immigrant victims of domestic and gang related violence, I would like to shed some light on some of my Christological views of life.
Congressional tax plan would hurt hard-working Missourians | The Kansas City Star
The aphorism “Act in haste, repent at leisure” seems to have been customized for the current congressional consideration of the so-called tax cut bill, HR 1. The House introduced the tax reform plan on Nov. 2, considered it in committee two days later, and passed the 448-page bill on Thursday, two weeks after it was made public.
Rep. Cleaver: Democrats should fight Trump with the Golden Rule
The ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates, not to be confused with classical Greek philosopher Socrates, taught his students the following: “Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you.” Confucius, the influential Chinese philosopher, is credited with having said, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Epictetus, from the school of stoicism, said, “Do unto others whatever you would like them to do to you.” There are similar precepts found in the Book...
Democrats should fight Trump with the Golden Rule: Rep. Cleaver
The wrong-headed D.C. belief that whoever holds the gold makes the rule has to end.
The GOP went low. Democrats, go high.
Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates taught: “Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you.” Similar precepts are found in the Talmud and the Quran. Scholars and theologians have labeled these words of virtue the Golden Rule. No matter which oracle or sage first uttered these words, this moral directive is exactly what the next president and Congress must embrace for the sake of this country.
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