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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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Russell Waters
Democratic · California
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Waters discusses the importance of confrontation in civil rights activism and clarifies that it is not about violence.

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