Ground States

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    Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 10:29.

    ... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.
    Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915)