“I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century.”

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The quote compares broadband to electricity, saying both are foundational technologies for their eras. It suggests broadband is not just useful but essential infrastructure for modern life. The point is that access to broadband shapes how people live and work in the twenty-first century.

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About Raphael Warnock

American politician and Baptist minister

Raphael Warnock is an American politician and Mainline Protestant minister in the Baptist tradition. He has served as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021 and has been the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock is known for combining public office with church leadership. His public profile is shaped by both roles, in government and in the pulpit, and by the moral language that often comes with that work.

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