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We must not be frightened nor cajoled
into accepting evil as deliverance from evil.
We must go on struggling to be human,
though monsters of abstractions
police and threaten us.

Source: In the Mourning Time.
-- Robert Hayden, (Aug 4 1913-1980), US educator, poet; He taught at Fisk University for twenty-two years; elected to the American Academy of Poets, 1975; poetry consultant to the Library of Congress.

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