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On the recordJuly 10, 2019
Violence begets violence and trauma begets trauma, and so many families and communities like my own are passing along, unfortunately, the legacy of intergenerational trauma.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley discusses the cycle of trauma in communities.

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