“Once unquestining obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth,
ever afterward resumes its liberty.”
More from Walt Whitman
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“When I give, I give myself.”
“I am not to speak to you—I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone, I…”
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”