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Cory Booker: “We still live in a nation where the power of the people is…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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America, This is a CIVIC ALTAR CALL: National Day of Action for Voting Rights

Published | Video Starts at 02:59

It was to stand up and organize and mobilize. Because we still live in a democracy, no matter how much they try to undermine it. We still live in a nation where the power of the people is greater than the people in power. We still live in a country that when we fight, when we fight. And so this is the call of our moment. This is, in fact, a civic altar call. (02:59–03:05)

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Asserts that in the United States, the power of the populace surpasses that of the governing authorities.

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