Sat Jan 7, 2012, 01:06 PM
Mitt Romney Quotes Lesbian Poet Concerned About Income Inequality On The Stump
Source: Think Progress
Mitt Romney regularly incorporates lyrics from “America the Beautiful” into his stump speeches. Little does he probably realize that the hymn was written by a progressive feminist lesbian who composed it to critique country’s greed, excess, and growing economic inequality. The original third-verse lyrics Katharine Lee Bates wrote in 1894 were as follows:
America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till selfish gain no longer stain The banner of the free! She later rewrote the stanza, toning down the rhetoric but maintaining that wealth was not what made America great: America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine! Read more:http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/06/399714/mitt-romney-quotes-lesbian-poet-concerned-about-income-inequality-on-the-stump/
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Sat Jan 7, 2012, 01:07 PM
treestar (75,099 posts)
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