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Lisa Blunt Rochester: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

On the recordJune 16, 2020
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Lisa Blunt Rochester
Democratic · Delaware

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Citing James Baldwin on the need to confront issues for change.

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