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Our venture in revolution and outlawry
Has justified itself in freedom's story
Right down to now in glory upon glory.
Robert Frost
freedom | glory | revolution
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I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in ...
Allen Ginsberg
homosexuality | America | Americans | military, the
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Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked
On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped: ...
Seamus Heaney
frogs
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Russell Hoban
language
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It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roun ...
D.H. Lawrence
poetry | poets
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a big picture of K. Marx with an axe,
"Where I cut off one it will never grow again." ...
Gary Snyder
Marx, Karl | society | justice
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The houses were few and far between, besides being small and rusty, though they appeared to be kept in good repair, and their door ...
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod, landscape of | architecture
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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that w ...
Mark Twain
cheerfulness
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Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we wer ...
Susan B. Anthony
freedom of expression | woman suffrage movement
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There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to ...
Maya Angelou
black culture
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