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Lady Gaga Gives Passionate Defence on Defeating Evil: “We are unified in our humanity”

Lady Gaga gave a passionate defence for humanity and unification during an event with the Dalai Lama in Indianapolis this weekend. The singer was invited to speak at the US Conference of Mayors on Sunday (June 26). She referred to the recent murder of 49 people at Orlando gay club Pulse by a gunman.

Gaga said: "In times of chaos and crisis, what we all tend to do is start pointing fingers at where we think the bad guys are. Where the evil is.

"We all start arguing, everyone has different opinions about that. Please do not forget that hatred, or evil, whatever you want to call it, it’s intelligent. It’s smart, and it’s invisible. It doesn’t have a color, it doesn’t have a race, it doesn’t have a religion. It has no politics.

"It’s an invisible snake that while it’s planning to make its attack, it is thinking to itself ‘I am going to divide my enemy into smaller, less strong groups. And then I’m going to make them hate each other, so that it’s easier to take them down.’

"And as we’re all yelling at each other trying to figure out which group it is that is causing the problem, evil is winning. So we have to get rid of those labels, these different factions; gay, straight, rich, poor, mentally ill, not mentally ill, gun owner, not gun owner.

"None of this can matter anymore. We are unified in our humanity and the only thing that we all know we all appreciate in one another is kindness. So this has to come before all things."

Her meeting with the Dalai Lama and the mayors meant a rumored appearance at this weekend's Glastonbury Festival never happened.

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Watch Gaga speak at the event below:

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