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What does it mean?
The quote calls for everyone to join in celebrating freedom loudly and universally.
In plain terms
All should sing together for liberty.
What can you take from it?
Celebrate freedom openly.

Where it applies

  • public rallies
  • national holidays

Putting it to work

  • singing anthems
  • organizing gatherings

Questions to consider

  • How can we include all voices in celebrations?
  • What does liberty mean to you?

Another view

It may overlook those who cannot or do not wish to participate.

More from James Weldon Johnson

  1. We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

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  2. The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

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  3. Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

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