During former President Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearing, the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan said the following:

“My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”

Today, we are in a fight for our democracy. I can hear Barbara Jordan’s clarion call for constitutional justice. I hear her clarion call to save our humanity and to save our nation.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words still ring true: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

We must lift every voice.

Lift every vote.

TONNIE VILLINES

Henrico County