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Walt Whitman on How Literature Bolsters Democracy and Why a Robust Society Is a Feminist Society – The Marginalian

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“America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without… Always inform yourself; always do the best you can; always vote.”

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