But the point of protest isn't winning; It's holding fast t… - Amanda Gorman

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But the point of protest isn't winning;
It's holding fast to the promise of freedom,
Even when fast victory is not promised.

Amanda Gorman

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Amanda Gorman (born 7 March 1998) is an American poet and social activist. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015, and became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. She studied sociology at Harvard College, and graduated cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received worldwide attention with her recitation of her poem "The Hill We Climb" written for the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

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Alternative Names: Amanda S. C. Gorman

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Our wounds, too, are our windows
Through them we watch the world

Non-being, i.e., distance from society, social distance is the very heritage of the oppressed.

Which means to the oppressor that social distance is a humiliation.

It is to be something less than free, or worse, someone less than white.

But the asking is not idle. It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself. — Anne Carson

But the point of protest isn't winning; It's holding fast to the promise of freedom, Even when fast victory is not promised. - Amanda Gorman

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