On the recordApril 19, 2021
And so, when they take words like confrontation, which certainly confrontation was used in the sit-ins, in the -- for the civil rights legislation, the marches, the prayers. All of that is confrontation.
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Waters discusses the importance of confrontation in civil rights activism and clarifies that it is not about violence.
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