Our+Crowd

 __Our Crowd __

 "In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle." --//Alexis de Tocqueville //, //"Democracy in America"//

"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews  and Gentiles , Protestants  and Catholics —will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God  Almighty, we are free at last!'"  --//Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.//

 **__ You, Whoever You Are __**

You, whoever you are!... All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!

All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!

All you of centuries hence when you listen to me!

All you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!

Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!

Each of us is inevitable,

Each of us is limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth,

Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,

Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

--//Walt Whitman//

 The Statue of Liberty at dawn <span style="font-size: 300%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">"I //chose// to be an American. What did you ever do, except for having been born?" --//Ayn Rand//

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