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Mothers and young children flock round an ice cream van in a back street in Hulme, Manchester: photo by Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 - 21 September 2014), 1965 via The Guardian, 8 October 2014
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Two young girls swing on a rope attached to a lamppost outside a corner shop in Hulme, Manchester in the evening light: photo by Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 - 21 September 2014), 1965 via The Guardian, 8 October 2014
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Islamabad, Pakistan.Afghan refugee girls sit in a hole in the ground, playing with a doll in a slum: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
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An #Afghan #refugee #child child plays with a kite on the outskirts of Islamabad, #Pakistan, on Monday #childrenoftheday: image via Voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 6 January 2015
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An Afghan refugee boy chases bubbles while playing on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 31 October 2014
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‘Every child under the age of 10 seems to be careering excitedly towards unsuspecting passers by, while a tired-looking parent vaguely attempts to assume some semblance of control’: photo by: DR Hutchinson/Getty via the Guardian, 29 December 2014
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Family: photographer unknown, c. 1955 (Ben Evans Recreation Program Collection, Seattle Municipal Archives)
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Two youths in Uptown, Chicago, Illinois: photo by Danny Lyon (b. 1942) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, August 1974(U.S. National Archives)
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Three young girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn: photo by Danny Lyon (b. 1942) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, July 1974(U.S. National Archives}
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Chicano boy, Second Ward, El Paso: photos by DannyLyon (b. 1942) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, June/July 1972 (US National Archives)
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School girl on street in North Philadelphia: photo by Dick Swanson (b. 1934) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, August 1973 (US National Archives)
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Squatting Girl / Spider Girlwith Green Car (New York): photo by Helen Levitt (1913-1909), 1980 via The Guardian, 24 October 2014
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Boy with finger in his mouth: photo by Weegee/International Centre of Photography via the Guardian, 9 January 2015
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Girls in movie theatre with doll: photo by Weegee/International Centre of Photography via the Guardian, 9 January 2015
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Two grinning boys, Manchester: photo by Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 - 21 September 2014), 1965 via The Guardian, 8 October 2014
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Extreme #poverty drives #Afghanistan #children to work in odd jobs No school Stolen childhood: image via voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 5 January 2015
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Extreme #poverty drives #Afghanistan #children to work in odd jobs No school Stolen childhood: image via voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 5 January 2015
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This tiny tot is likely to become #PeshawarAttack militant. Pic: Taken from IS child camps near Mosul, Iraq. #children: image via Apurva #Apurvamahendra, 6 January 2015
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How was 2014 for #Palestinian #Children? via @DCIPalestine #FREE_PALESTINE #ICC4Israel #BDS: image via Sam Fisher 6 @echelon, 5 January 2015
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#Yemen armed #children belong to houthi militants in Hodida #city:image via Fuad Al-Hothefy @Fuad_PRYC, 6 January 2015
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Are you sure that all #children are #innocent? I feel sorry for #future #generations this is what they call for #jihad: image via Yecidia @yezidia, 5 January 2015
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Donetsk, Ukraine. A child holds a weapon outside a bombshelter that is used as accommodation by locals whose homes have been destroyed in shelling attacks: photo by Valeriy Sharifulin/ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis via The Guardian, 22 December 2014
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Kurdish children from the Syrian town of Kobani play at a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Turkey: photo by Osman Orsal / Reuters via The Guardian, 29 November 2014
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Afghan refugees living in Islamabad: photo by Anadolu Agency via The Guardian, 1 December 2014
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Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan. A child plays at a camp for internally displaced people. As winter sets in across the region, many Afghans struggle to provide adequate food and shelter for their families: photo by Farshad Usyan / AFP via The Guardian, 4 December 2014
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Children, internally displaced due to fighting between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, walk past tents at the Jarjanaz refugee camp in Idlib, Syria: photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters via The Guardian, 6 December 2014
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A Syrian boy plays on a skateboard in Ankara, Turkey. Syrian refugees across the Middle East, some in exile for a fourth winter, face freezing temperatures, hunger and increasing hostility from locals as governments struggle to cope with the humanitarian crisis. Lebanon and Jordan are tightening their borders to stem the flow of those trying to escape, while in Turkey, widely praised for hosting around half of Syria’s estimated 3.2 million refugees, the influx threatens to upset the country’s delicate social balance: photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters via The Guardian, 6 December 2014
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Gaza City, Gaza. A Palestinian boy looks out through a hole in his damaged family home: photo by Suhaib Salem/Reuters via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
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Ahmadabad, India. Students pour water on each other as part of a ritual bath on the eve of Magh Purnima: photo by AP via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
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Kabul, Afghanistan. An internally displaced child washes her feet at a hand pump as she and others wait for their parents to collect food relief aid from the World Food Programme: photo by Shah Marai/AFP via The Guardian, 14 January 2015
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Despite crying from the cold, Ibrahim, seven, seen here standing at the entrance to his shelter, has helped his father clear snow from the roof to prevent it collapsing. The refugee family in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley have only a makeshift tent to protect them from the cold, with temperatures dipping below -5C (23F): photo by Ralph Baydoun/World Vision via The Guardian, 15 January 2015
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A boy warms his hands by a fire at a makeshift garage in a camp in Arsal: photo by Maya Hautefeuille/AFP via The Guardian, 15 January 2015
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#Pray for #Children and Give #charity #Syria: image via Sis Convince Me @SisConvinceMe, 5 January 2015
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Suruç, Turkey. A Kurdish boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp: photo by Yannis Behrakis / Reuters via The Guardian, 3 November 2014
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#syria #pain #children #world #storm We were [to] have houses but after Alassad start[ed] a war we [have] been homeless for freedom:image via ABD @mmoawea, 6 January 2015
#mwoodsphotos: Absolute Beginners, Notting Hill... @mwoodsphotos at @BridgemanImages #children #London #photography #Poverty #homeless #children:image via Susan Israel @bondi_izzy, 6 January 2015
It was that verse about becoming again as a little child that caused the first sharp waning of my Christian sympathies. If the Kingdom of Heaven could be entered only by those fulfilling such a condition I knew I should be unhappy there. It was not the prospect of being deprived of money, keys, wallet, letters, books, long-playing records, drinks, the opposite sex, and other solaces of adulthood that upset me (I should have been about eleven), but having to put up indefinitely with the company of other children, their noise, their nastiness, their boasting, their back-answers, their cruelty, their silliness. Until I began to meet grown-ups on more or less equal terms I fancied myself a kind of Ishmael. The realisation that it was not people I disliked but children was for me one of those celebrated moments of revelation, comparable to reading Haeckel or Ingersoll in the last century. The knowledge that I should never (except by deliberate act of folly) get mixed up with them again more than compensated for having to start earning a living.
Mothers and young children flock round an ice cream van in a back street in Hulme, Manchester: photo by Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 - 21 September 2014), 1965 via The Guardian, 8 October 2014
Today I am more tolerant. It's not that I loathe the little scum, as Hesketh Pearson put it; merely that 'the fact is that a child is a nuisance to a grown-up person. What is more, the nuisance becomes more and more intolerable as the grown-up person becomes more cultivated, more sensitive, and more engaged in the highest methods of adult work' (Shaw). I don't know about highest methods of adult work: what makes the contest between them so unequal is that the child is younger and so in better physical shape, life hasn't yet cut it down to size, it's not worried about anything, it hasn't been to work all today and hasn't got to go to work all tomorrow, all of which makes it quite unbearable but for none of which can it fairly be blamed. The two chief characteristics of childhood, and the two things that make it so seductive to a certain type of adult mind, are its freedom from reason and its freedom from responsibility. It is these that give it its peculiar heartless, savage strength.
Philip Larkin (1922-1985): excerpts from The Savage Seventh (a review of Iona and Peter Opie: The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, 1959), first published in The Spectator, 20 November 1959, reprinted in Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982, 1983
Two young girls swing on a rope attached to a lamppost outside a corner shop in Hulme, Manchester in the evening light: photo by Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 - 21 September 2014), 1965 via The Guardian, 8 October 2014
Islamabad, Pakistan.Afghan refugee girls sit in a hole in the ground, playing with a doll in a slum: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
An Afghan boy in Pakistan plays with a kite: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 31 October 2014
An #Afghan #refugee #child child plays with a kite on the outskirts of Islamabad, #Pakistan, on Monday #childrenoftheday: image via Voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 6 January 2015
An #Afghan #refugee #child girl washes a bed in a polluted stream, poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad #Pakistan: image via Voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 6 January 2015
An Afghan refugee boy chases bubbles while playing on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 31 October 2014
A Yemeni boy walks past a mural reading ' Why did you kill my family' on Dec. 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa #drones: image via Voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 4 January 2015
‘Every child under the age of 10 seems to be careering excitedly towards unsuspecting passers by, while a tired-looking parent vaguely attempts to assume some semblance of control’: photo by: DR Hutchinson/Getty via the Guardian, 29 December 2014
Family: photographer unknown, c. 1955 (Ben Evans Recreation Program Collection, Seattle Municipal Archives)
Two youths in Uptown, Chicago, Illinois: photo by Danny Lyon (b. 1942) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, August 1974(U.S. National Archives)
Three young girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn: photo by Danny Lyon (b. 1942) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, July 1974(U.S. National Archives}
Chicano boy, Second Ward, El Paso: photos by DannyLyon (b. 1942) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, June/July 1972 (US National Archives)
School girl on street in North Philadelphia: photo by Dick Swanson (b. 1934) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, August 1973 (US National Archives)
Squatting Girl / Spider Girlwith Green Car (New York): photo by Helen Levitt (1913-1909), 1980 via The Guardian, 24 October 2014
Girls in movie theatre with doll: photo by Weegee/International Centre of Photography via the Guardian, 9 January 2015
Two grinning boys, Manchester: photo by Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 - 21 September 2014), 1965 via The Guardian, 8 October 2014
Pupils from the Latymer School, London: photo by Jane Bown (1925-2014) for The Observer, 1963, via The Observer, 21 December 2014
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Beatles fans in East Ham, London: photo by Jane Bown (1925-2014) for The Observer, 1963, via The Observer, 21 December 2014
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In Room 34, Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, 17 December 1954
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A quiet moment in Room 34, Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, 17 December 1955
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A quiet moment in class, Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, c. July 1956
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At Bablake School, Coventry. "Pip" Jones, one of the great characters in our school form:photo by allhails, c. July 1956
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At Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, mid-1957
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At Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, mid-1957
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If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time #RobertDoisneau #photojournalism #children: image via Mark Denham @DenhamMark, 5 January 2015
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Salford, UK. Children playing outside in Broughton Green, as the late autumn sunshine casts shadows of a bare tree on their house: photo by Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, 3 November 2014
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Afghan children during their madrassa, or religious school, in a mosque: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 31 October 2014
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Islamabad, Pakistan. Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistani children attend their daily madrasa, or Islamic school, at a mosque on the outskirts of the capital: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP via the Guardian, 15 January 2015
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#NewYear offers little chance for #children's #education in #Syria, warns UNICEF:image via UN News Centre @UN_News_Centre, 6 January 2015
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#IslamicState #School Closures- 670,000 #Children deprived of Education #Refugees #Syria:image via World Relief Memphis @WRMemphis, 6 January 2015
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RT @pn_antilogias: @FRANCE24: School attacks killed 160 #Syrian #children in 2014: UN image via semprecontro @semprecontro, 6 January 2015
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This summer in #Lebanon in this and other villages we held camps for the #Syrian refugee #children: image via New Fields @NewFields, 5 January 2015
Beatles fans in East Ham, London: photo by Jane Bown (1925-2014) for The Observer, 1963, via The Observer, 21 December 2014
In Room 34, Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, 17 December 1954
Bablake School, Coventry: Perkins and Weaver in a full and frank discussion: photo by allhails, 19 May 1955
At the fair, Hearsall Common, Coventry: photo by allhails, 30 May 1955
At Hearsall Common fair, Coventry: photo by allhails, 4 June 1955
A quiet moment in Room 34, Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, 17 December 1955
A quiet moment in class, Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, c. July 1956
At Bablake School, Coventry. "Pip" Jones, one of the great characters in our school form:photo by allhails, c. July 1956
At Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, mid-1957
At Bablake School, Coventry:photo by allhails, mid-1957
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time #RobertDoisneau #photojournalism #children: image via Mark Denham @DenhamMark, 5 January 2015
Salford, UK. Children playing outside in Broughton Green, as the late autumn sunshine casts shadows of a bare tree on their house: photo by Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, 3 November 2014
Afghan children during their madrassa, or religious school, in a mosque: photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP via The Guardian, 31 October 2014
Islamabad, Pakistan. Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistani children attend their daily madrasa, or Islamic school, at a mosque on the outskirts of the capital: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP via the Guardian, 15 January 2015
#NewYear offers little chance for #children's #education in #Syria, warns UNICEF:image via UN News Centre @UN_News_Centre, 6 January 2015
#IslamicState #School Closures- 670,000 #Children deprived of Education #Refugees #Syria:image via World Relief Memphis @WRMemphis, 6 January 2015
RT @pn_antilogias: @FRANCE24: School attacks killed 160 #Syrian #children in 2014: UN image via semprecontro @semprecontro, 6 January 2015
This summer in #Lebanon in this and other villages we held camps for the #Syrian refugee #children: image via New Fields @NewFields, 5 January 2015
Extreme #poverty drives #Afghanistan #children to work in odd jobs No school Stolen childhood: image via voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 5 January 2015
Extreme #poverty drives #Afghanistan #children to work in odd jobs No school Stolen childhood: image via voice of Afghanistan @VoiceAfghan, 5 January 2015
This tiny tot is likely to become #PeshawarAttack militant. Pic: Taken from IS child camps near Mosul, Iraq. #children: image via Apurva #Apurvamahendra, 6 January 2015
How was 2014 for #Palestinian #Children? via @DCIPalestine #FREE_PALESTINE #ICC4Israel #BDS: image via Sam Fisher 6 @echelon, 5 January 2015
#Yemen armed #children belong to houthi militants in Hodida #city:image via Fuad Al-Hothefy @Fuad_PRYC, 6 January 2015
Are you sure that all #children are #innocent? I feel sorry for #future #generations this is what they call for #jihad: image via Yecidia @yezidia, 5 January 2015
Donetsk, Ukraine. A child holds a weapon outside a bombshelter that is used as accommodation by locals whose homes have been destroyed in shelling attacks: photo by Valeriy Sharifulin/ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis via The Guardian, 22 December 2014
Kurdish children from the Syrian town of Kobani play at a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Turkey: photo by Osman Orsal / Reuters via The Guardian, 29 November 2014
Afghan refugees living in Islamabad: photo by Anadolu Agency via The Guardian, 1 December 2014
Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan. A child plays at a camp for internally displaced people. As winter sets in across the region, many Afghans struggle to provide adequate food and shelter for their families: photo by Farshad Usyan / AFP via The Guardian, 4 December 2014
Children, internally displaced due to fighting between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, walk past tents at the Jarjanaz refugee camp in Idlib, Syria: photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters via The Guardian, 6 December 2014
A Syrian boy plays on a skateboard in Ankara, Turkey. Syrian refugees across the Middle East, some in exile for a fourth winter, face freezing temperatures, hunger and increasing hostility from locals as governments struggle to cope with the humanitarian crisis. Lebanon and Jordan are tightening their borders to stem the flow of those trying to escape, while in Turkey, widely praised for hosting around half of Syria’s estimated 3.2 million refugees, the influx threatens to upset the country’s delicate social balance: photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters via The Guardian, 6 December 2014
Gaza City, Gaza. A Palestinian boy looks out through a hole in his damaged family home: photo by Suhaib Salem/Reuters via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
Ahmadabad, India. Students pour water on each other as part of a ritual bath on the eve of Magh Purnima: photo by AP via The Guardian, 4 January 2015
Kabul, Afghanistan. An internally displaced child washes her feet at a hand pump as she and others wait for their parents to collect food relief aid from the World Food Programme: photo by Shah Marai/AFP via The Guardian, 14 January 2015
@Raqqa_SI: Syrian refugees #children going to school despite everything. Atmeh camp, in Idleb, Idlib, #Syria: image via Maey @MaeyCat, 6 January 2015
Despite crying from the cold, Ibrahim, seven, seen here standing at the entrance to his shelter, has helped his father clear snow from the roof to prevent it collapsing. The refugee family in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley have only a makeshift tent to protect them from the cold, with temperatures dipping below -5C (23F): photo by Ralph Baydoun/World Vision via The Guardian, 15 January 2015
A boy warms his hands by a fire at a makeshift garage in a camp in Arsal: photo by Maya Hautefeuille/AFP via The Guardian, 15 January 2015
A Syrian boy, right, looks out through the door of his snow-covered shelter in Deir Zanoun: photo by Hussein Malla/AP via The Guardian, 15 January 2015
#Pray for #Children and Give #charity #Syria: image via Sis Convince Me @SisConvinceMe, 5 January 2015
Suruç, Turkey. A Kurdish boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp: photo by Yannis Behrakis / Reuters via The Guardian, 3 November 2014
# It's not #death [t]hat scares us, if we die 4 a better #life 4 our #children. What scares [us] is 2 die without meaning:image via geen Alhasan @GeenHasan, 6 January 2015
#syria #pain #children #world #storm Happy New real year Welcome in syria:image via ABD @mmoawea, 6 January 2015
#syria #pain #children #world #storm We were [to] have houses but after Alassad start[ed] a war we [have] been homeless for freedom:image via ABD @mmoawea, 6 January 2015