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| | Governor Mario M. Cuomo | Abraham Lincoln and Our "Unfinished Work" | Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 8 | ... |
 | | It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that, government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
 | | That work is today, as it was in 1863, still an unfinished work... |
 | | In the struggle to free working people from the oppression of a ruthless economic system that saw women and children worked to death and men born to poverty, live in poverty and die in poverty — in spite of working all the time. |
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