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Maddow An anti-Trump movement forms, united by morality · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Does protest matter? Does small-scale local protest matter? Does saying
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  Speaker 1: no make a difference? I mean, sometimes, just practically speaking,
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  Speaker 1: it seems fundamentally irrational, right? A waste of time at best.
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  Speaker 1: At worst, it can be a huge risk. In exchange
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  Speaker 1: for what, right? For some faraway prospect, some faraway change
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  Speaker 1: of some faraway institution or problem that you have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with and that rationally you can't possibly influence
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  Speaker 1: from your neighborhood, from your little corner of your own
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  Speaker 1: private life.
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  Speaker 2: Or....
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  Speaker 1: There's the real-world history of human conscience and nonviolent principled
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  Speaker 1: protest that calls on people to see what is morally
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  Speaker 1: right and what is morally wrong, right? What is unconscionable
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  Speaker 1: in their own time? Whether or not there's some immediately
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  Speaker 1: apparent practical connection between the specific act of protest and
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  Speaker 1: what you're protesting against. It is often an act of
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  Speaker 1: faith that what you're standing up against will be at
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  Speaker 1: all affected by the act of your standing up against it.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why principled protest, I think, so often,
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  Speaker 1: not always, but so often, comes with some relationship to
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  Speaker 1: a faith tradition. And again, not always, right? Tell the
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  Speaker 1: Dublin Catholic churches that were railing against these young shop
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  Speaker 1: workers picketing their store. But also... Tell those Dublin nuns
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  Speaker 1: who saw through what the Catholic Church was telling them
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  Speaker 1: to do who joined them. And also look here, too,
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  Speaker 1: in our own country, in our own time. Today is
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  Speaker 1: day seven of an eight-day, 90-plus-mile march in California by clergy,
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  Speaker 1: by faith leaders, and regular people from the ICE facilities
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  Speaker 1: that Trump is operating, his three immigrant prisons out in
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  Speaker 1: the desert in Adelanto, California. People this past week have
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  Speaker 1: marched— for the last seven days, people have marched all the
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  Speaker 1: way from those facilities way out in the desert, nearly
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  Speaker 1: 100 miles to downtown Los Angeles. They're calling it a pilgrimage,
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  Speaker 1: a pilgrimage honoring the four people who have died at
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  Speaker 1: Adelanto under Trump, a pilgrimage to get those facilities closed.
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  Speaker 2: As far as why 96 miles, that's the distance from
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  Speaker 2: Adelanto to the detention center in downtown L.A. And the
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  Speaker 2: distance is purposeful. Adelanto is placed... so far outside of
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles to make it hard to get to, to
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  Speaker 2: make it so that people are detained out of sight
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  Speaker 2: and out of mind. And so we're trying to highlight
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  Speaker 2: that distance. We're trying to draw attention to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that people are still here. We still see them. They're
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  Speaker 2: isolated from their families, but they're not isolated from the
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  Speaker 2: human community.
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  Speaker 1: That 96-mile pilgrimage out of the desert finishes tomorrow in
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  Speaker 1: downtown L.A. Then the day after tomorrow, another one starts.
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  Speaker 1: This one starts in Seattle on Wednesday. Another pilgrimage, this
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  Speaker 1: one's due to be four days and 48 miles. led
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  Speaker 1: by Japanese Americans who survived mass internment, mass incarceration of
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  Speaker 1: Japanese Americans during World War II and also their descendants.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to start at the King County International Airport,
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  Speaker 1: where they want Trump's deportation flights to stop. They'll be
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  Speaker 1: at the Tukwila Ice Facility, where they want to close
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  Speaker 1: down the hold rooms for immigrant kids there. They'll go
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  Speaker 1: to the Puyallup Assembly Center, where Japanese-American families were sent
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  Speaker 1: on their way to the prison camps back in World
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  Speaker 1: War II. They'll end up at the Northwest Ice Processing
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  Speaker 1: Facility in Tacoma, Washington, to support the immigrants held there
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  Speaker 1: and to call for shutting that place down. That pilgrimage,
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  Speaker 1: that four-day, 50-mile pilgrimage, starts this week. We're also looking
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow to Pima County, Arizona, where a local group called PRICE,
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  Speaker 1: which stands for Pima Resists Ice, Price is going to
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  Speaker 1: be at the Marana Town Hall in Marana, Arizona, just
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  Speaker 1: outside Tucson tomorrow, because they want their town council to
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  Speaker 1: block the Trump administration's plans to open another large immigrant
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  Speaker 1: prison in Marana, Arizona. On Saturday this weekend, it was
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  Speaker 1: a really big protest on the east side of San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio in Texas. Democrats, including Congressman Joaquin Castro and local
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  Speaker 1: council members and a local Catholic priest who is a
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  Speaker 1: former San Antonio police officer himself, all led a big
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  Speaker 1: group of San Antonio residents this weekend marching, trying to
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  Speaker 1: stop Trump from opening up a huge new immigrant prison
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  Speaker 1: in San Antonio. This today was Vermont, where local residents
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  Speaker 1: and clergy held a political funeral for people killed in
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  Speaker 1: Trump's ICE prisons. Williston, Vermont, hosts an intelligence center for ICE.
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  Speaker 1: As local activists see it, Williston, Vermont, is basically ICE's
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  Speaker 1: national surveillance headquarters. They've been telling people, quote, deportations across
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  Speaker 1: the country all start in Williston, Vermont. And they've been
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  Speaker 1: mobilizing people across Vermont and across New England to try
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  Speaker 1: to shut that center down. All this week, people in
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  Speaker 1: Vermont are targeting that facility with nonviolent protests, led in
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  Speaker 1: large part by faith groups, trying to get that ICE
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  Speaker 1: intelligence facility, that ICE surveillance headquarters in Vermont, shut down.
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  Speaker 1: They want it out of their state. All month long,
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  Speaker 1: we've been watching protesters in— for weeks now, we've been watching
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  Speaker 1: protesters in Alexandria, Louisiana. Alexandria, Louisiana is about as far
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  Speaker 1: as you can get on the ideological number line from Vermont, right?
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  Speaker 1: But there, too, you've got locals from all over Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: including clergy of all stripes, just hammering local authorities in
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  Speaker 1: central Louisiana, in Alexandria, Louisiana, saying they do not want
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  Speaker 1: a second Trump ICE prison for kids and families to
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  Speaker 1: open up in their town. There's one already in Dilley, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: which you know about. That has been a moral and
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  Speaker 1: practical catastrophe. Now Trump is trying to open up a
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  Speaker 1: second prison for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana. Locals have mounted
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  Speaker 1: protests and marches and prayer vigils. They've been hounding their
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  Speaker 1: local officials to try to stop this thing from opening.
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  Speaker 1: One local organizer telling NOLA.com this weekend, quote, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to put our hands up and say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: we tried. When it opens, it'll be even more important
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  Speaker 1: to put pressure on it to get it closed. At
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  Speaker 1: that point, people are being harmed. We are just going
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  Speaker 1: to keep making a stink of it. We'll never go
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  Speaker 1: away until it's closed. And that is central Louisiana. You
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  Speaker 1: think those folks have a shot at winning this? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think they're morally right in what they are asking for?
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  Speaker 1: Politics don't always unfold in a linear way or even
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  Speaker 1: in a predictable or seemingly rational way. Moral catastrophes make
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  Speaker 1: for surprising alliances. and for weirdly shaped big tent politics
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  Speaker 1: where surprising people end up aligning with each other on
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  Speaker 1: moral grounds. Tomorrow, the Interfaith Alliance is launching a national
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  Speaker 1: 15-state bus tour called The Vote is Sacred to try
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  Speaker 1: to stop any effort to mess with the elections and
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  Speaker 1: to mess with people's voting rights. Today, the top elections official,
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  Speaker 1: a Republican in red state Utah, is also proclaiming in
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  Speaker 1: the same language that the voting rights of people in
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  Speaker 1: her state are, in her words, sacred. She is speaking
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  Speaker 1: out as the state's Republican lieutenant governor, as the top
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  Speaker 1: elections official in the red state of Utah, speaking out
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  Speaker 1: against Trump administration efforts to mess with the Utah vote,
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  Speaker 1: to mess with elections in Utah. She has reportedly been
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  Speaker 1: told for her troubles that she is under investigation by
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  Speaker 1: Trump's Justice Department for refusing to hand over sensitive information
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  Speaker 1: about Utah voters to the feds. She says Utah's voting
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  Speaker 1: rights are sacred. She is a Republican in that Republican-dominated state. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to hear from a Fulton County, Georgia official
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  Speaker 1: who is screaming bloody murder, who's really sounding the alarm
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  Speaker 1: about a MAGA election denier official in Georgia state government
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  Speaker 1: who is now explicitly inviting Trump's federal agents to come
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  Speaker 1: in and mess with Georgia's elections. She is a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to hear from her tonight. But one of
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  Speaker 1: the people screaming alongside her is the Republican chair of
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  Speaker 1: Georgia's elections board. And you see these kinds of strange
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  Speaker 1: bedfellows dynamics over and over again. And I really think
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  Speaker 1: it's because people have big, unpredictable hearts. I think moral
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  Speaker 1: issues make for unpredictable politics and surprising turns. As the
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  Speaker 1: White House considers its options for messing with these elections,
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  Speaker 1: so Republicans can't be turfed out of power, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: Trump can't either. One recent poll asked Americans to choose
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  Speaker 1: a word to describe this president. And the one word
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  Speaker 1: out of the long list that most people picked was
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  Speaker 1: the word corrupt. Corrupt was first, followed in second place
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  Speaker 1: by dangerous, followed by out of touch, followed by cruel. Corrupt, dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: out of touch, cruel. You know, a gazillion people are
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  Speaker 1: going to protest against Trump in one way or another
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  Speaker 1: on October 17th, on the next No Kings Day, Saturdays.
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  Speaker 1: October 17th. But open your eyes to this stuff, because
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  Speaker 1: today and every day until then, you know, there are
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  Speaker 1: our generation shop girls. are Mary Mannings, our regular folks
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  Speaker 1: in their own towns, far away from the corruption and
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  Speaker 1: the cruelty that they are trying to stop. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: they get mocked for being impractical, for shouting into the void,
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  Speaker 1: for trying to change something way bigger than them, something
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  Speaker 1: far away from them, something they can't control. And that
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  Speaker 1: critique is fair, and it is rational, and it is true.
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  Speaker 1: It's true until it's not. until making a moral case
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  Speaker 1: for what's right saves not only your own soul, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe your country's too. Hey, it's Rachel. I am so
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