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Summer Lee: Whatever it takes, we will be there as nonviolent perpetrators of the civil disobedient persons we are.

On the recordJuly 22, 2021
Whatever it takes, we will be there as nonviolent perpetrators of the civil disobedient persons we are.
Said by
Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Sheila Jackson Lee expresses commitment to nonviolent civil disobedience in the fight for voting rights.

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