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(1885 – 1930) English writer and poet.

From slavery to liberty to slavery in three generations

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020Categories libertyTags D. H. Lawrence

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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