And, seriously--whatever your ideology--don't ever be afraid to be who you are, to say what you believe to be true. These are Wellstone's last words on the Senate floor before he died. Brave to the end.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer.