| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31048 |
| QUOTATION: | Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African-American hymn-writer. Published in The Hymnal (1982). “Lift every voice and sing,” l. 1-4, Edward B. Marks Music Corporation (1921).
Considered the “African-American National Anthem.” |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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