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Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

1973

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Berry, Wendell. "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front." The Country of Marriage. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

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