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Following A Dream Toward Freedom


Freedom has always come very easily for me. I've always had it and I've
never been without it. But as I sit here thinking I remember all the stories
that were told to me, about the struggles we were put through to get these
freedoms. Since I am a black woman my general knowledge of history tells me
that the struggle for freedom was extremely great. Blacks had to endure slavery
and go through wars to achieve their freedoms. Woman had to live in silence
while the world was run without their say. To overcome this they created woman's
suffrage and woman's rights acts to finally allow them their freedoms. It is an
extremely triumphant feeling to know the things they went through to give me the
luxuries I have today. But what if they didn't? What if we were still having to
fight wars for our freedoms? I often wonder what slavery would be like? Looking
in today's
society slavery is still the same nightmare it was then. People in
South Africa and Iran......

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