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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010

Floor Speech

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: Dec. 15, 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Military Personnel Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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Mr. Speaker, life has prepared me for this vote. When you have had to sit at the back of the bus, in the balcony of the movie and have had to stand in a line for colored only, then you are prepared for this vote. I assure you that I don't need a survey to tell me what is right when it comes to human rights. We cannot truly have a first-class military with second-class soldiers. I close with this:

I will not ask people who are willing to die for my country to live a lie for my country.

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