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Tongues
It is quite possible, I think,
That tongues, not money,
Are taproots of evil.
If men were mutes and could not babble
There'd be less need for conferences,
Caucuses, rallies, meetings, speeches-
The tongue dragging the body around.
New York, 1939
Written by Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
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