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=Defiance= Reflection on Defiance

"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." -Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" [|source]

Jacob Lawrence //No. 22 John Brown was found 'Guilty of treason and murder in the 1st degree' and was hanged in Charles Town, Virginia on December 2, 1859.// [|source]

"I sprang at him, seized his coat lapels and demanded that he apologize....But he continued to curse and struggle, and I butted him again and again until he went down heavily, on his knees, profusely bleeding.... Poor fool, poor blind fool, i thought with sincere compassion, mugged by an invisible man!" -Ralph Ellison, //Invisible Man next//