Jefferson Davis County

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    The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
    Shatters into a billion fragments
    Of quiet shadows
    At the blaring jazz
    Of a morning sun.
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

    But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)