Carl Sandburg - The People, Yes (1936)

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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold.
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

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In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march. In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march:
'Where to? What next?'

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The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,
"What are those?"
"Soldiers."
"What are soldiers?"
"They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can."
The girl held still and studied.
"Do you know … I know something?"
"Yes, what is it you know?"
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

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The machine yes the machine
never wastes anybody's time
never watches the foreman
never talks back.

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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?

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Love your neighbour as yourself but don't take down your fence.

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Have you a criminal lawyer in this burg?
We think so, but we haven't been able to prove it on him yet.

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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.

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To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep... you will die because the people will awaken'.

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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

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