“Others live in poverty and ain't acknowledged properly. A proper poor economy where so many are proper poor, but while their needs are ignored the money goes to big wars. Origami armies unfold plans for paper planes and we remain imprisoned in our own paper chains, but the greater shame is that it always seems to stay the same, what changes is who's in power choosing how to lay the blame, they're naming names, forgetting these are names of people, because in the end it all comes down to people.”

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Statement said 7:46-8:08

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