Here at our sea-washed, sunset, gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
(Excerpt from The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus)
There is both freedom and risk in being able to choose to include those that society excludes. The risk, of course is that society will add us to the Outcast pile.
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