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drspinderwalf · 3430 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Statue of Liberty Must be Crying with Shame
Always one of my favorite texts, along with this:
- No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Though I remember hitchens once saying something like the above being used to describe a proposal to keep Europe unified or something.... But I like the romanticism of unity of humanity. Et pluribus unum.