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Ayanna Pressley: Violence begets violence and trauma begets trauma, and so many families and communities like my own are passing along…

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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