03/12/2019
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"It is because we are committed as a coalition to the fullness of American democracy in all aspects of what we do."
"We are striving now to achieve the ideals that the Founding Fathers set out for the country but have never been fully accomplished."
"H.R. 51 imposes no such conditions or limitations on the state of Washington, DC."
"Hopefully, the D.C. Statehood issue will be seen both as a democratic issue, but also as a racial justice issue."