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spreading feelings of community-level patriotism with people
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joined in a joint political effort to defend their rights.
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So you have people who are sort of joined
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in this effort of patriotic austerity;
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they're all sort of joining
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in a willingness to sacrifice luxuries for a worthy cause.
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Now of course not every American
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and not every colonist is doing this,
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so when I say "Joined, everyone's joined,"
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maybe not everyone,
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but there were a lot of people
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who were paying attention to this idea of non-importation.