Biden awards Presidential Citizens Medals to 20 recipients, including Liz Cheney - WEIS | Local & Area News, Sports, & Weather

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : ""Together, you embody, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, the essential truth: We're a great nation.
49% : Louis Lorenzo Redding (posthumous)A groundbreaking civil rights advocate, Louis was the first Black attorney admitted to the bar in Delaware, where he argued against segregation in the seminal cases of Bulah v. Gebhart and Belton v. Gebhart -- laying the legal framework for Brown v. Board of Education.
46% : Mary L. BonautoAttorney and activist Mary Bonauto first fought to legalize same-sex marriage in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine before arguing before the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, which established marriage equality as the law of the land.
35% : Eleanor SmealFrom leading massive protests and galvanizing women's votes in the 1970s to steering progress for equal pay and helping the Violence Against Women Act become law, Ellie Smeal forced the Nation to not only include women in political discourse but to value them as power brokers and equals.

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