Leaves of Grass — Song of Myself (sections 1–5 opening) • Paragraph 5
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I will not have a single person slighted or left away, The kept-woman, sponger, thief, who is glad to be in the street, The runaway slave returned to the bondsmen, the crippled boy, the handmaid, the wife, the mother, I will have none of them excluded from the procession, none objected to or despised.