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and bruce levine's book is terrific on this--
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a free labor ideology.
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A fear of concentrated power,
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the defense of the individual,
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The small man.
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It was a fanfare for the common man,
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the small farmer or the small clerk,
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The small--small in the sense of--he has nothing,
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He may own nothing, but he wants to own something.
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It's the immigrant with nothing who wants to own a farm,
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And he must have, at least in this America of its boundless west,
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He must have physical mobility, geographical mobility.