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Raise Your Voice - Traci Blackmon - Our Faith Our Vote

By Traci Blackmon — 2016

I raise my voice for equal rights. For equity in education. For health care for all. For marriage equality. I raise my voice because people like my grandmother, and my grandfather, and my aunts and uncles, fought for me to have the right to do so.

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