Of all dangers to a nation, as things exist in our day, there can be no greater one than having certain portions of the people set off from the rest by a line drawn — they are not privileged as others, but degraded, humiliated, made of no account.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet
Democratic Vistas (1871)

 
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