O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is…

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

Sourced, Let America Be America Again, from A New Song (1938)

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