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 We are done with little thinking and we’re done with little deeds, We are done with petty conduct and we’re done with narrow creeds; We have grown to men and women, and we’ve noble work to do, And today we are a people with a larger point of view. In a big way we must labor, if our flag shall always fly, In a big way some must suffer, in a big way some must die.

There must be no little dreaming in the visions that we see, There must be no selfish planning in the joys that are to be; We have set our faces eastward to the rising of the sun That shall light a better nation, and there’s big work to be done. And the petty souls and narrow, seeking only selfish gain,