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There’s another thing that Ghana reminds us. I’m coming to the conclusion now. Ghana reminds us that freedom never comes on a silver platter. It’s never easy. Ghana reminds us that whenever you break out of Egypt, you better get ready for stiff backs. You better get ready for some homes to be bombed. You better get ready for some churches to be bombed. You better get ready for a lot of nasty things to be said about you, because you're getting out of Egypt, and, whenever you break aloose from Egypt, the initial response of the Egyptian is bitterness. It never comes with ease. It comes only through the hardness and persistence of life. Ghana reminds us of that. You better get ready to go to prison. When I looked out and saw the prime minister there with his prison cap on that night, that reminded me of that fact, that freedom never comes easy. It comes through hard labor and it comes through toil. It comes through hours of despair and disappointment.
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I've been reading this over and over. Freedom comes "through hours of despair and disappointment"; "Freedom never comes on a silver platter"; "It's never easy"; "You better get ready for a lot of nasty things to be said about you"; "It comes through hard labor and it comes through toil"; "It comes through hardness and persistence of life".
December may be a bitterly disappointing month for the LGBT community. It is possible that the Hate Crimes Bill and ENDA will die with the session or by veto (let's hope not, but it is possible).
All the work, all the phone calls, all the struggle and we can't even get a bill that helps keep violence against us at bay.
"It comes through hours of despair and disappointment"