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On the recordJanuary 6, 2022
If everyone who believes in American democracy, who believes as I do, the core vision of a multiracial multi-sectarian, self-governing people across all sorts of lines of difference, commanding our own fate together collectively for ourselves, if all of those people across those lines of difference do not band together in the face the people who refuse to be ashamed of their attack on that principle one year ago, then the recollection of this day could look very different in the future.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Raskin emphasizes the importance of unity among those who believe in democracy to resist authoritarianism.

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