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Summer Lee: “There is a limit to the expression of free speech and the freedom to assemble and that limit is violence.”

On the recordJuly 15, 2020
There is a limit to the expression of free speech and the freedom to assemble and that limit is violence.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Sheila Jackson Lee stated that free speech is limited by the presence of violence.

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