Which excerpt from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address best reflects the Union goal of guaranteeing equal rights for African Americans? A. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that [our] nation might live. B. Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation __ dedicated to the [idea]that all men are created equal. C. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. D. Government of the people, by the people ,for the people, shall not perish from the earth.