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Our job is to be a witness and to tell the world so that no one can ever say, "No one told us; we didn't know."
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The speaker describes a duty to observe what is happening and tell others about it. Being “a witness” means making sure important facts are not kept silent or overlooked. The goal is that people cannot later claim, “No one told us; we didn't know,” because the information was clearly shared.
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