Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death<\/p>\n
Harriot Tubman said she would shoot anyone who made a sound or dared turn around<\/p>\n
There is a price to be paid to be free.<\/p>\n
I do not know who said ignorance is bliss<\/p>\n
But I do know this…<\/p>\n
Stockholm syndrome is a real thing.<\/p>\n
That is not to say I live happily every day under my oppressors thumb-<\/p>\n
Only that sometimes the beat of my ancestors drum goes dim<\/p>\n
And I wonder if the rhythm is done<\/p>\n
The sound drowned out by the incessant noise of the same old wheel<\/p>\n
There is a price to be paid to be free.<\/p>\n
Can the spirits of my long dead relatives feel<\/p>\n
That the revolution has begun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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