On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
As President Abraham Lincoln declared in the Gettysburg Address, 'A true democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people.'
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Pressley invokes Lincoln to highlight the essence of democracy in the context of D.C. statehood.
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