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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Book I. Inscriptions: To the States

To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
       Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

#Americans #XIXCentury #1855 #LeavesOfGrass

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