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Joe Biden: “My mother taught me that silence was complicity, and that I needed to speak up for what is right.”

On the recordAugust 19, 2020
My mother taught me that silence was complicity, and that I needed to speak up for what is right.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
npr.org

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Remarks at the Democratic National Convention.

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