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not just to the gay community but to all their constituents who believe in the fundamental principles of a democratic society.

Contact your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your employers, and your family members and make sure they too make their voices heard for freedom and justice. The phone banks of the radical right will be working overtime and yours must be too.

There is likely to be a massive misinformation campaign about what our bill does. Form truth squads and make sure your delegation in Congress has the facts to separate truth from malicious fiction.

Work closely with others in the civil rights community in your area-people of color, women, disbility, religious, and labor organizations—and ask for their support and suggestions. They are veterans in the civil rights movement and can be helpful with coalition-building and strategy. As Harvey Milk said: "None of us are free until all of us are free." We need to join together, not let others divide us.

If we have the courage of our principles, if we appeal to the best in ourselves and our country, we shall overcome, just as others

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Together, we can overcomein the halls of Congress and communities across America, in Oregon and Colorado and from Washington State to Washington, DC.

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For those imprisoned by prejudice and those liberated by pride, let this be a call to

action.

Gay and lesbian Americans the time has comeand together we march toward a new dawn.

Edward M. Kennedy U.S. Senator, Massachusetts

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