Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet
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Boston (st. 5)
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