“People! Flung far and wide. . .”

"People! flung far and wide, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams. among lovers, eaters, drinkers, workers, loafers, fighters, players, gamblers.  Here are the iron workers, bridgemen, musicians, sandhogs, miners, builders of huts and skyscrapers, jungle hunters, landlords and the landless, the loved and the unloved, the lonely and the abandoned, the brutal and the compassionate--one big family close to the ball of Earth for its life and being." Carl Sandburg