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All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
Mary Travers
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Mary Travers
Age: 72 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 7
Died: 2009
Died: September 16
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Singer-Songwriter
Louisville
Kentucky
Mary Allin Travers
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