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Friday, May 20, 2005

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.

-- Walt Whitman

Posted by Quixie at 12:20 AM

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