Advocates
The D.C. Statehood Green Party (formed as the D.C. Statehood Party in 1971 by Julius Hobson) and Stand Up! for Democracy in DC Coalition (Stand UP!), founded in 1997, have been the primary institutional advocates for statehood.
Read more about this topic: District Of Columbia Statehood Movement
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“It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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