“We have closed the gap between yesterday and tomorrow, but we have a few more miles to go. But that too is an opportunity to show the world who we are. In Georgia, where civil rights has been an act of will and a battle for our souls, we have learned a fundamental truth. Democracy only works when we work for it. When we fight for it. When we demand it. When we stand in lines for hours to meet it at the ballot box,” said Abrams in her speech that lasted a little over seven minutes.