This Week in The Resistance: Classy Words Meryl, POTUS

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This Week in The Resistance: Classy Words Meryl, POTUS
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men." 
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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This Week in The Resistance: Classy Words Meryl, POTUS

"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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This Week in The Resistance: Classy Words Meryl, POTUS

"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The Human Rights Campaign, Stand Up for America, and others join forces to protest government's targeting of journalists.

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Minnesota resident Alice Valentine says she and her girlfriend suffered severe mistreatment at the hands of ICE.

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"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox