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There's a political reality that feels especially true this year: those who are silenced and made invisible have more at stake. Children who are too young to vote but whose futures are affected the most by current decisions. Families who rely on Obamacare to stay alive, but whose lives are contingent on a court case. Immigrant, undocumented families who are forced to live in the shadows. And so many more people who continue to face injustice.
In moments like these, I think about my grandma the strong, resilient matriarch of our family. I owe it to her to never stay silent, which is why I'm sharing my story with you. I hope that you'll do what I cannot do: vote.
Vote to make our voices and stories visible. Vote to validate our experiences. Vote for a future that is just. Vote because you can.
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With your vote, you have the chance to make a future that seems impossible possible, to make the stories of those who are invisible visible. I urge you to do so.
In solidarity,
Esperanza*
First-year College Student
*The Children's Defense Fund has had the great privilege to meet and work with young people from all across the country, some of whom have chosen to share their stories with us. This young person has chosen to be identified by a pseudonym.
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Dr. Lafayette was the co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the former national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. He has been a long-time friend of the Children's Defense Fund and has generously shared his experience and wisdom with young CDF Freedom Schools® staff and child advocates. He is the current Breeden Scholar-in-Residence at Auburn University and national chair of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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