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Quote by William Booth
While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight.
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The speaker connects women’s present suffering with a decision to fight. “While” suggests that the weeping is ongoing, so the struggle continues alongside it. The line expresses a readiness to act in response to visible pain, without explaining what form that fight will take.
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- The Salvation Army UK, William Booth and The Salvation Army Resource Sheet D
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