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Paul Pompili

Paul Pompili

Community advocate from Rochester, NY, retired from Thomson Reuters; participant in Rural & Migrant Ministry's Journey of Empathy Caravan focused on rural economy and immigrant worker rights.

Jun 12, 2026

8:11
right
8:11
and this was a way to really act on that and put myself through the test do i really believe this right you know do i really want to love everybody and so i think that was for me regarding the faith that was probably the biggest thing is that we are all human beings we're all people we have our own beliefs we have our own faiths we have our own everything of everything so to speak and it's not up to me to decide I'm gonna go with this one but I'm not gonna love this one you know it's up to me to just be as loving or understanding, or there's so many words you can probably use to describe it, as I possibly can and just be the best at it that I can.
9:03
And I

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24:25
that
24:26
so am i am i just gonna you know speak my faith once a week in church right or am i going to practice it every day and this was an opportunity to really look for myself look in the mirror and say hey are you doing as you believe are you doing as you speak and so that's big for me in that way and in a lot of ways during this whole week on the caravan it changed me all the way down to allowing somebody to tape signs on my car i mean i've always looked to my car it's a tool to go from point a to point b whether it's a small car, medium car, big, it doesn't matter.
25:08
And I never put anything on the car.
25:12
Even like during the last election, Linda wanted to put bumper stickers on.
25:17
And we agreed on just the kind that stick on the glass because they're removable.

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