"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free."

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Addendum: I am a Christian. This colors my view somewhat. I believe that this society should be one where people are free to believe whatever they want, because this also allows me freedom to follow my conscience and my G-d. And that is why John Brown's Body reverberates for me:

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Because while America as it exists in any given moment is corrupt and broken and has many people who want to master their fellow humans, America the ideal is still a good thing many of us yearn for. America, the ideal, is still worth dying for, and working toward, out of love for my neighbors.

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Because we have never truly lived up to our lofty ideal. But because enough of us believed in it, enough of us considered it good, enough of us did little things and big things and tried to live up to it in our own ways, we have traveled an incredibly long way from our origins, built a lot of good.

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We fought the Civil War. and then we made a little more progress. Adams fought for abolition in Congress. And then we made a little more progress. We declared independence from Britain. and then we made a little more progress.

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