<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423975" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Statue of Liberty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the statue of liberty, <br>it's either black or white<br>depends on who you are.<br>it turned quite black <br>years ago but refurbished<br>to look brand new, of course<br>the last thing it should do <br>is turn black.<br>the hackneyed mushy<br>writings about the relief<br>our ancestors heaved<br>while reaching america's shores<br>upon seeing this statue<br>is a white lie.<br>the only thing if at all, <br>the liberty statue <br>has come to anything is<br>that it is still trying hard <br>to stand up for what it is<br>- to stand tall in the darkest hours<br>and the broadest daylight.<br>its torch is marble and never really meant<br>to illuminate right from wrong.<br>it wept silent tears over the mockeries<br>heaped upon him, that it was the first to greet rusty chains, shackles, corpses...<br>and skin-covered starved and<br>all human indignities day in and day out<br>when it was installed.<br>amid these, the white angels to the<br>new land claimed for freedom laughed<br>and perpetrated similar injustices<br>that fuelled their flight.<br>america's freedom has always lay <br>in the hearts of sincere americans - black or white. <br>our statue needs a real torch and flame <br>to brighten up those corners of our hearts that we have kept dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423975" data-title="Statue of Liberty de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="the statue of liberty, it's either black or white depends on who you are. it turned quite black years ago but refurbished to look brand new, of course the last thing it should do is turn black. the hackneyed mushy writings about the relief our ..."></div> </div> </div>

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